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THE RECORD 

OF 

PHI KAPPA PSI 



A SHORT HISTORY OF THE 
PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY 



BY 

GUY MORRISON WALKER 

INDIANA ALPHA '87 



1906 



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Foreword 



Phi Kappa Psi has been most fortunate in retain- 
ing through their Hves the enthusiastic devotion of 
her sons. But college life is short, and, while most 
of the old boys have kept in close touch with their 
own Chapters, the Fraternity has grown so steadily 
that few of them really know the full extent to 
which they have reason to be proud of their Fra- 
ternity. In this little book they will find that with 
which to justify the faith that is in them. Phi 
Kappa Psi has never posed as an exponent of the 
strenuous life, but the remarkable activities of her 
members is proof that they have kept constantly 
before them her ideals of well-balanced and all- 
round manhood. 

It is natural that a college fraternity should be 
judged by the lives and character of those who have 
been brought within the range of its influence, 
and it is with confidence that we may abide any 
judgment of our beloved Fraternity based upon its 
record as herein shown. No other college fraternity 
of our years has achieved anywhere near so much. 

Phi Psi's record is a glorious one and we who 
have helped to make it, have a right to demand of 
the present bearers of our standards that they pre- 
serve our traditions, maintain our principles and 
keep our faith, so that those who take up Phi Psi's 
standards after them may find in their record, as 
in ours, an inspiration for the future. 

Splendid as our record is here shown to be, it is 
too much to hope that many of our best achieve-^ 
ments and most distinguished brothers have not 
been overlooked, for memory is treacherous and 
many things are remembered only when it is seen 
that they have been forgotten. The supplying of my 
omissions, the correction of my errors and the re- 
cording of Phi Psi's still greater achievements will 
offer to another hand a labor of love which this 
has been to mine. 

Guy Morrison Walker. 

15 Wall Street, New York. 
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Phi Kappa Psi 



. In^ the Fall of 1851 Charles P. T. Moore and 
William H. Letterman, two students of Jefferson 
College, at Canonsburg, Pa., were invited to join the 
Greek letter college fraternities then in existence at 
Jefferson College, but, being dissatisfied with the 
principles dominating the existing fraternities and 
being unwilling to conform to the standards of life 
which they had adopted, and believing that the ex- 
isting fraternities had failed to see and recognize 
the greatest need of college men, they determined 
to establish a new fraternity which should bring 
into the lives of its members this needed element 
and which should attract to it men seeking to live 
by a higher standard than had then yet obtained. 
This they did on the 19th of February, 1852, calling 
it the Phi Kappa Psi. The memory of these two 
men is perpetuated by the Fraternity by the cele- 
bration of Founders' Day, on the 19th of February 
of each year. 

INSIGNIA. 

Badge The Badge of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity worn 

by its members is a shield of gold, with two points 
at the top, the face of the shield being enameled in 
black. In the upper portion is an eye, flanked on 
each side by a star. Beneath the eye, across the 
center of the shield, are the character letters^ K.^I^ 
and beneath them is an antique lamp resting on a 
closed book. The chapter to which the wearer be- 
longs may be designated by an attachment pin, show- 
ing the Greek letter of his Chapter. 
Pledge A button of gold, bearing on its surface a shield 

Button of black enamel, which in turn bears on its face an 
urn resting on a book, is worn by those who, while 
not yet initiated into the Fraternity, have given 
their pledge or promise to join it. 



A button of gold, bearing on its surface the badge Alumni 

of the Fraternity and surrounded by a laurel wreath Button 
in filigree, is worn by members of the Alumni. 

The colors of the Fraternity are pink and laven- Colors 
der. 

The whistle or call of the Fraternity is as follows : Whistle 




The Phi Kapoa Psi yell is 

High, high, high, Phi Kappa Psi. 
Live ever, die never, Phi Kappa Psi. 

The flower of Phi Kappa Psi is the sweet pea of 
the pink and lavender colors. 

PUBLICATIONS. 

Phi Kappa Psi publishes a magazine called The 
Shield, that is issued monthly during the college 
year. It is devoted to the correspondence from the 
different Chapters, to papers and discussions of gen- 
eral Fraternity interest and to personal items and 
news concerning the members of the fraternity. The 
Shield was established in 1879 by Professor Edgar 
F. Smith, now of the faculty of the University of 
Pennsylvania, and is now in its twenty-sixth volume. 
The Shield was the direct successor of the Phi Kap- 
pa Psi Monthly, which was established in October, 
1875, by George V. Porter, at Baltimore, Md., and 
of the Phi Kappa Psi Quarterly, which was pub-, 
lished in 1877 at Ashland, Ohio, by Joseph E. 
Stubbs, now the President of the University of 
Nevada. The Shield has been noted almost from 
the beginning as the first of college fraternity maga- 
zines, and has issued more numbers than any other 
college fraternity magazine. It has becomxC famous 
for its fearlessness and its aggressive justification 
of the rights and policies of Phi Kappa Psi. It is 
remarkable for the amount and character of Fra- 



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Flower 



ternity news which it contains. Its forceful char- 
acter and frequent issues are unquestionably re- 
sponsible for the uniform strength and homogeneous 
character of the different Chapters of the Frar 
ternity. 

Catalogues The Fraternity has issued altogether six cata- 
logues. The first was issued in i860 under the 
supervision of the Virginia Alpha Chapter, and con- 
tained 548 names. The second catalogue was pub- 
lished in 1870 by the Pennsylvania Zeta Chapter. 
This catalogue, with full gilt edges, handsome 
frontespiece and heavy binding, was a fine volume 
for its day. It contained the record of 1848 mem- 
bers that Phi Kappa Psi then had,. The third 
catalogue was issued in 1878 by the Ohio Alpha 
Chapter, but, not being satisfactory, the Pennsyl- 
vania Theta Chapter, which succeeded the Ohio 
Alpha Chapter as Grand Chapter, immediately began 
the compilation of a new catalogue. This cata- 
logue, the fourth one, was a large, well-bound, well- 
illustrated volume, containing 346 pages and a record 
of 3526 members. The fifth catalogue, issued in 
1894, under the editorship of Brother George 
Smart, is one of the best and most comprehensive 
catalogues ever issued by a college fraternity. It 
contains 416 pages and is a fairly complete history 
of each one of the 5682 Phi Psis named therein. 
The sixth and last catalogue issued by the Fra- 
ternity is the so-called pocket edition issued in 1902, 
also under the editorship of George Smart, which 
merely attempts to give the names and addresses 
of the members of the Fraternity in convenient shape 
for ready reference. 

bong Books ^ Pl^ii Kappa Psi song book, containing many of 
the most characteristic, catchy and stirring songs 
ever written for a college fraternity, was published 
in 1893, under the editorship of that famous song 
and hymn writer, the late Rev. Robert Lowrey, D. D. 
A second song book, to include the later songs of 
the Fraternity, was published in 1904. 

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Many pieces of popular music have borne the Music 
name of Phi Kappa Psi, but it is only possible to 
mention a few of the most popular ones. In 1874 
the Pennsylvania Zeta brought out the Phi Kappa 
Psi Schottische, written by Wilbur F. Goody, one 
of its members. The Phi Kappa Psi Waltzes were 
published by Ed. Raff, of Ohio Gamma, in 1880. 
In 1889 Brother E. A. Dumont, of Indiana Alpha, 
published his Phi Kappa Psi March and Phi Kappa 
Psi Waltzes. In 1894 Brother Robert Hiller, of 
Ohio Beta, published his Phi Kappa Psi Gavotte, 
while one of the latest issues has been the very 
popular Phi Kappa Psi Two-step, published by F. H. 
Robertson, of Kansas Alpha, in 1899. 

The semi-centennial of Phi Kappa Psi in 1902 History 
was marked by the publication of the first history 
of the Fraternity, which was written by Brother 
Charles L. Van Cleve, of Ohio Alpha. It is a tasty 
volume of over 300 pages, every page of which re- 
flects the warm fraternal spirit that has ever char- 
acterized Phi Kappa Psi. 

Three excellent accounts of their respective Chap- Chapter 
ters have been issued by the members of Ohio Histories 
Alpha, at Ohio Wesleyan University; Indiana 
Gamma (ngw inactive), at Wabash College, and 
Mississippi Alpha, at the University of Mississippi. 

In 1898 the Indiana Alumni Association issued a Directories 
directory of the Psi Psis in that State. In January, 
1903, the New York Alumni Association issued a 
directory of all the members of the fraternity re- 
siding in and near New York City. In the same 
year the Indiana Phi Psis published a second edi- 
tion of their State Directory, which is a most valua- 
ble compilation. The Denver Phi Psis have also is- 
sued a small pamphlet, giving the names and ad- 
dresses of the members of the Fraternity in Denver 
and the territory tributary to it, while last year a 
most complete directory of the Phis Psis on the Pa- 
cific Coast was compiled by Bro. E. M. Pomeroy and 
published by the San Francisco Alumni Association. 



The Record This the first issue of Phi Psi's Record was au- 
thorized by the Grand Arch Council of 1904. Its 
purpose is to furnish the Chapters with a com- 
prehensive yet succinct account of the progress of 
and position attained by the whole Fraternity. It 
will be brought up to date and a new edition pub- 
lished every second year. 



What Phi Kappa Psi Means 

A little over fifty years ago two college students A New 
in a little town in the hills of Western Pennsylvania Light 
were nursing and watching their stricken fellow 
students while an epidemic of typhoid fever raged 
through the college. During the long night vigils a 
new light dawned on their spiritual vision and its 
rays shone deep into their souls, while the great joy 
of serving others came into their lives. 

Calling a number of kindred spirits to join them 
in their labor of love, their brotherhood grew, sur- 
vived the passing of the scourge and gradually 
spread far and wide among the college men of our 
country. Idealists all, these founders of Phi Kappa 
Psi taught a new fraternity — a fraternity which 
should supplement the work of the university by 
cultivating those humanities without which the 
educated man fails of his greatest usefulness. 

Recognizing the need and value of education, Phi PhiPsi's 
Kappa Psi urges upon her members the securing of Purpose 
the best and broadest education possible; but, unless 
actuated by a proper love for mankind and impelled 
by a high purpose to serve his race, the educated 
man is too apt to shrink from the struggle of life, 
and withdrawing from his kind, to waste his talents 
in idle speculation. It was to counteract this ten- 
dency that our Fraternity was founded. 

Phi Kappa Psi believes that talents should be 
cultivated to be used for the benefit of our fellow 
men, and she seeks to develop among her members 
a purpose so to use theirs. But life is dreary, in-^ 
deed, for him who, from a sense of duty alone, 
pursues an unloved task. He who would truly 
serve his race must love his work and exalt those 
whom he would serve. 

It is this heart-filling desire to serve, and this high Phi Psi's 
enthusiasm for an idealized task, that it is Phi Psi's Mission 
mission to supply. It is when a man realizes that 
he is doing his part of the world's work that he can 
approach his task with that exaltation of soul that 



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compels success. When to education and the ability 
to do is added the desire to render loving service, 
and that enthusiasm which is born of high ideals, 
the result is that all-round, achieving manhood 
which Phi Psi truly means. 



CHAPTER HOUSES. 

Of our forty-two active chapters, thirty-six live in 
chapter houses, and of these the following seventeen 
chapters own their own homes : Allegheny, Penn- 
sylvania College, Dickinson, Pennsylvania Univer- 
sity, Amherst, Cornell, Syracuse, Colgate, West Vir- 
ginia, Vanderbilt, Wittenberg, DePauw, Purdue, 
Chicago, Michigan, Wisconsin and Beloit, while the 
chapters of Illinois, Minnesota and Ohio Wesleyan, 
expect to build during the year. We have almost 
reached the goal that we started for, of having every 
chapter in a chapter house, while we have made 
excellent progress towards securing a chapter house 
for every chapter. 



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Pointers 



Phi Kappa Psi is noted for the loyalty and fra- 
ternity enthusiasm of its members. Members of 
other fraternities have often remarked upon this 
characteristic of ours and marveled at it. The 
truth is that to Phi Kappa Psi has come a revela- 
tion of the meaning of fraternity that has been 
denied to other Greek letter societies. 

Phi Kappa Psi has always been noted for the 
breadth and catholicity of its fraternity spirit. Our 
best friends have always been the ''Barbs," or non- 
fraternity men. 

Phi Kappa Psi is the youngest of the great col- 
lege fraternities. Though founded in 1852, she is 
easily the largest and strongest college fraternity 
established since 1850. So vigorous has been her 
growth that she has surpassed all but three or four 
of the oldest fraternities in size and strength. 

The Shield for Phi Kappa Psi has for years been 
the first of fraternity magazines, a model after 
which others have patemed theirs. 

The Shield has the largest circulation of any col- 
lege fraternity magazine, a fact which proves the 
interest and loyalty of our alumni. 

Phi Kappa Psi was a pioneer in the modern cen- 
tralized form of government by means of an execu- 
tive council, composed of graduate officers. The " 
wisdom of this course is shown by the fact that 
all of our fraternity publications have paid their 
own way, while our magazine is a source of profit 
to the Fraternity. We not only have no debts, but 
our treasury is full. 

Phi Kappa Psi is a fraternity of Chapter Houses. 
Thirty-six of our forty-two Chapters are living in 
Chapter Houses. 

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Phi Kappa Psi is a jealous mistress. No man 
wears her colors or her badge save he upon whom 
she has cast loving eyes and to whom she has re- 
vealed her mysteries. Her sons are her own. Her 
rolls are not encumbered, as are those of many 
other fraternities, with the names of men who have 
never been initiated, and upon whom their only 
claim is that they once held membership in another 
fraternity or local society whose later members were 
absorbed. 

Phi Kappa Psi is remarkable for the high percent- 
age of its members who have graduated and taken 
their college degrees. This is, however, natural when 
it is known that the fraternity has always made a 
point of encouraging its initiates to remain in college 
and pursue their courses to the end. 

The principles of Phi Kappa Psi make for vig- 
orous and successful manhood, because they de- 
mand mental integrity and stimulate a healthy in- 
terest in and a proper sympathy for the activities 
about one. 

Our alumni and alumni associations are most 
active in their assistance to the younger members 
who have just left college and are seeking for the 
first time a place for themselves out in the world. 
It is, therefore, zvorth more to a young man to 
belong to Phi Kappa Psi than it is to any other 
college fraternity. 



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History and Government 

The founders of the fraternity were active propa- Search for 
gandists and Penn Alpha was no sooner on its feet New Fields 
than Judge Moore left his old college in search of 
other schools in which to spread the principles of 
Phi Kappa Psi. 

He went first to Union College, New York, then 
famous as a place where fraternities flourished, but 
finding the field there already crowded, he aban- 
doned the idea of establishing a chapter at Union 
and went to the University of Virginia, where in 
1853 he established the second chapter of the frater- 
nity. 

Penn. Alpha being the original chapter claimed to Penna Alpha 
have the final decision in all matters pertaining to the Supreme 
fraternity, but the presence of Judge Moore, who 
was one of the founders, at the University of Vir- 
ginia, gave that chapter considerable confidence in 
maintaining its position as against the parent chap- 
ter. 

The most active man in the fraternity in those Tom 
early days was, however, one Tom Campbell, an Campbell 
enthusiast, born in India of missionary parents, and 
full of the mysticism of the East. He lived but to 
see Phi Kappa Psi established and to him even more 
than to its actual founders does the fraternity owe 
its peculiar character and wide extension. 

At the first Grand Arch Council held in Washing-First G.A^C 
ton in August, 1855, little seems to have been accom- 
plished but the delegates from Virginia Alpha seem 
to have been the dominant figures, as they also were 
at the second Grand Arch Council held in Cannons- 
burg, in August, 1856. 

This Council formally elected the Virginia Alpha Virginia 

Chapter to be the Executive Head of the fraternity, Alpha 

and gave it the title of Grand Chapter, which posi- Becomes 

tion it held until 1861, when the Civil War broke Leader 

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out and it, together with the other southern chapters, 
suspended. 
Active While these two chapters contended for leadership 

Extension little else was done; but in 1855, as soon as Virginia 
Alpha had attained confidence in her position, the 
question of expansion was decided in the affirma- 
tive, and a vigorous campaign begun. Within one 
year six chapters were chartered and inaugurated, 
namely those at Washington and Lee University, 
Allegheny College, Bucknell University, Washington 
College, Hampden-Sidney College, and Pennsylvania 
College. 
Vitality of With one exception, that of Hampden-Sidney Col- 
Early lege, whose charter was withdrawn in 1900 on ac- 
Chapters. count of the decline of the college, every one of 
these early chapters of the fraternity remains in ex- 
istence to-day, vigorous in their present life and add- 
ing yearly to their accumulated honors, though it 
should be noted that the two chapters at Washington 
and Jefferson Colleges were consolidated by the 
union of the two colleges. 
Rapid During the remainder of Virginia Alpha's admin- 

Growth istration the fraternity grew steadily. Nine more 
chapters were established and the outbreak of the 
Civil War found the fraternity with seventeen active 
chapters. 
Inaction With the closing of the southern colleges and the 
During War suspension of the southern chapters, Virginia Alpha's 
work as Grand Chapter was taken up by Penn. Delta. 
During the four years of the war only a single chap- 
ter was established, Illinois Alpha, but as the war 
drew to a close young men began to flock again to 
the colleges and fraternity life became active. 
Wonderful The year 1865 saw the establishment of Indiana 
Recovery Alpha, Kentucky Alpha, and Illinois Beta, while the 
four succeeding years witnessed not only a revival 
of several southern chapters, but the establishment 
of eleven new ones, so that the year of 1870 saw 
the fraternity with twenty-seven active chapters. 
Early In 1866 Penn Delta was succeeded as Grand Chap- 

Strength ter by Virginia Delta, which was in turn succeeded 

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by Pent! Zeta in 1869. The conservatism of the new 
Grand Chapter became apparent at once, and dur- 
ing its six years of administration only four new 
charters were granted. It was during its term as 
Grand Chapter that Penn Zeta pubHshed the fine 
second catalogue of the fraternity. 

In 1875 the Ohio Alpha Chapter succeeded the Slow Progress 
Dickinson Chapter and signalized its accession to 
power by the establishment of Kansas Alpha, Mich- 
igan Alpha, and Wisconsin Beta. In 1878 Ohio Alpha 
was succeeded as Grand Chapter by Penna.^ Theta 
which was in turn succeeded by D. C. Alpha in 1881. 

During these 3^ears the growth of the fraternity The 
proceeded more slowly, and the establishment of Beginning 
Maryland Alpha, Ohio Delta, California Alpha, of wisdom 
New York Delta, Wisconsin Gamma, Iowa Delta, 
New York Beta, and Minnesota Alpha, did little 
more than cover the loss of the chapters at Racine, 
Cumberland, Bethany, Randolph-Macon and Mon- 
mouth Colleges. 

In 1884 D. C. Alpha was succeeded by Penn Last Grand 
Epsilon at Gettysburg College, which thus became Chapter 
the last of the Grand Chapters. For at least eight 
years before the Grand Chapter system of govern- 
ment was abolished, a strong movement in favor of 
a change of government had grown up within the 
fraternity, but this movement was not able, until the 
Grand Arch Council of 1885, to show sufficient 
strength to carry out its plans. 

At this Council a special committee was oppointed A New 
to draft an entirely new system of government, pro- Goverment 
viding for a strong, centralized executive council, the 
officers of which should be graduates, and a special 
Grand Arch Council was called to meet at Indian- 
apolis in April of the following year to pass upon 
the report of this committee. The report of the com- 
mittee was adopted, completely revolutionizing the 
system of government in the fraternity. The plan 



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A New 

Founder 



Present 
System 



then adopted exists and is in operation at the pres- 
ent time, with only such amendments as the growth 
and development of the fraternity have made advis- 
able. 

To Brother William C. Wilson, now Chief Claim 
Attorney of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 
Railroad Company, who planned the new form of 
government and drafted the new constitution, the 
fraternity owes a debt of gratitude, second only to 
that which it owes to its illustrious founders. 

Under the present system of government, the 
Grand Arch Council, composed of delegates from 
every active chapter and alumni association, meets 
every two years and is the supreme authority of the 
fraternity. The officers of the Executive Council are 
elected by the Grand Arch Council, the other mem- 
bers of the Executive Council being the archons of 
the different districts into which the fraternity is 

divided for administrative purposes, who are elected 
by the district councils that are held every two years 
in the years intervening between the Grand Arch 
Councils. During the interim of the Grand Arch 
Council the Executive Council is the supreme au- 
thority of the fraternity, but its acts are reviewable 
by the succeeding Grand Arch Council to which it 
must report. 

This system has enabled the fraternity to handle 
its business expeditiously and in the best possible 
manner, for the fraternity has been most fortunate 
in securing as its executive officers some of our most 
active and successful professional and business men. 

Internal Since the change in the form of government, in- 

Improvementternal improvement has been the order of the day. 
It has been a period of chapter house building. 
Small chapters have grown larger, luke-warm ones 
have been revived in spirit, unsatisfactory ones have 
been eliminated and replaced by chapters of larger 
membership and more vigorous life in stronger and 
better institutions, while the Shield has appeared reg- 



G. A- C. 

Supreme 



Successful 
Officers 



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ularly, arousing our alumni and spreading the spirit 
and ardor of our founders throughout our entire 
membership. 

Yet ro other college fraternity has been more con- Extreme 
servative m its growth during the last twenty-five Conservatism 
years ih:in has Phi Kappa Psi. In 1884 we had 
thirty-six active chapters, while in the present year, 
T906, we h"ve forty-two, an increase of only six' 
This result h:is been attained by the establishmentSIow Growth 
ot httecn new cnapters in the following institutions* 
Colgate University, University of Minnesota, 
bvvanhmore Collece, University of West Virginia 
Lelaud Stanford, Brooklyn Polytechnic, University 
of i\ebraska, Amherst, Dartmouth, University of 
California, Purdue, Vanderbilt, Brown, and the Uni- 
versities of Texas and Illinois, and the withdrawal of 
chapters^ from Carleton, Simpson, Hobart, Univer- 
sity of tile Pacific, Wooster, South Carolina, Colum- 
bian, Hampden-Sidney and Wabash. 

i^/fl'^'^'u^'^^^ noted that not a single one of the Vital 
fifteen chapters estabhshed in the last twenty-three StreiSth 
years has been mactive for a single day since its ^ 

establishment, but that all of them have been vigor- 
ous and successful from the first, and are active and 
prosperous at the present time. 

The present officers and members of the Exccu- Executive 
tive Council of Phi Kappa Psi are: Cnf^r7i 

Vice-President-Rev. W. C. Alexander, No. 3121 P 

Street, N. W., Washington, D. C 
Secretary-Orra E. Monnette, No. 133 14th Street, 

loledo, Ohio. ' 

Treasurer-Lincoln M. Coy, No. 1417 Unity Build- 

mg, Chicago, 111. 

T^- . . ^. ARCHONS. 

n!!/'''! '~l'^i' Howard Schoch, Selin's Grove, Pa. 
District 2-Robert S Schultz, Jr., No. 406 W. 109th 
Street, New^ York City. 



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District 3 — John Guy Prichard, Morgantown, W. Va. 
District 4 — Thomas D. Sheerin, No. loio N. Penn. 

Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 
District 5 — Frank J. Merrill, Lawrence, Kan. 

GRAND ARCH COUNCILS AND PRESIDING 
OFFICERS. 

1855— At Washington, D. C, James W. Morgan. 
1856 — At Canonsburg, Pa., James W. Morgan. 
1858— At Washington, D. C, W. C Falconer. 
i860 — At Washington, D. C, John L. Massie. 
1865— At Pittsburg, Pa., M. C. Herman. 
1868— At Cincinnati, Ohio, C. E. Merritt. 
1871— At Wheeling, W. Va., A. C. Reinoehl. 
1874 — At Columbus, Ohio., Jerome Lee. 
1876— At Philadelphia, Pa., A. A. Leiser. 
1878 — At Indianapolis, Ind., J. K. Bogart. 
1880— At Washington, D. C, M. C Herman. 
1883— At Pittsburg, Pa., Martin Bell. 
1885— At Columbus, Ohio, Geo. D. Gotwald. 
1886 — At Indianapolis, Ind., Gerry C. Mars. 
1888— At Washington, D. C, F. H. Hodder. 
xSgo—At Chicago, III, L. VanBuskirk. 
1892— At Cincinnati, Ohio, Robins S. Mott. 
1894— At New York, N. Y., Wm. M. Thatcher. 
1896— At Cleveland, Ohio, William C. Wilson. 
1898— At Philadelphia, Pa., William C. Sproul. 
1900 — At Columbus, Ohio, George Smart. 
1902— At Pittsburg, Pa., Sion B. Smith. 
1904 — At Indianapolis, Ind., Frank L. Littleton. 



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Our Fraternity 

The Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity consists of forty- 
two active chapters is as many different colleges and 
universities and the members of twenty in-active 
chapters and thirty Alumni Associations in the lead- 
ing cities of the country. Short sketches of all the 
chapters and associations here follow, together with 
a list of some of our members who have won fame 
and place for themselves and brought honor to their 
fraternity. 

ACTIVE CHAPTERS. 

FIRST DISTRICT. 

Pennsylvania Alpha, the parent chapter of the W. & J* 
fraternity, was founded in old Jefferson College, 
Penn., on Feb. 19, 1852. In 1865 Jefferson College 
was consolidated with Washington College at Wash- 
ington, Penn., where the Penn. Delta Chapter had 
been established ten years before. The union of the 
two colleges was followed by the consolidation of 
the two chapters which continued under the name 
of ''Alpha," while the college became known as 
''Washington and Jefferson." 

The college has a faculty of thirty, with 370 
students in attendance last year. The Penn. Alpha 
Chapter has always held a high rank among the fra- 
ternities of Washington and Jefferson, with an aver- 
age active membership of twenty, while the total 
membership of the chapter is 403. The high charac- 
ter and excellent abilities of the founders of the 
fraternity and the early members of these chapters, 
has given Penn. Alpha an extraordinarly large num- 
ber of prominent and successful men. 

Penn. Beta was established in Allesrheny College Allegheny 
in Meadville, Penn., in the Spring of 1855. This 
college was established in 1815 by the Methodist 
Church, and has at the present time a faculty of 



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. sixteen members with 300 students in attendance. 
This chapter is the oldest in continuous existence 
that we have and although located in a small college, 
it has from its very foundation maintained a large 
membership of the highest character. In total ini - 
tiates it is the largest chapter in the fraternity and 
is the first in that group of a half dozen chapters 
to whom the fraternity owes a large majority of its 
successful and prominent Alumni. Fully three- 
fourths of its initiates have graduated and taken 
their college degrees. Its members have always 
stood first in scholarship and been leaders in ath- 
letics and college journalism, it has recenrly b;)noht 
and occupied a fine new chapter house. Total mem- 
bership 415, of whom twenty are now active. 

Bticknell Penn. Gamma was established at Bucknell Uni- 
versity in 1855. This institution is under the pat- 
ronage of the Baptist Church, and now^ has a faculty 
of fifty-two members with 720 students. The chap- 
ter has an active membership of fourteen, and a 
total membership of 304. It has always stood high 
in the university, and is noted for the many college 
honors which it has taken, while its list of alumni 
includes many of the most prominent and successful 
graduates of the University. It is the second of 
that list of famous chapters in small colleges that 
have given to the fraternity most of its best known 
Alumni. 

Gettysburg Penn. Epsilon was founded in 1855 in Pennsyl- 
vania College at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The 
college was founded in 1832 and is under the aus- 
pices of the English Lutheran Church. It has a 
faculty of fourteen members with 258 students in 
attendance. In 1882 this chapter built the first chap- 
ter house belonging to our fraternity, and by so 
doing made itself secure in the position of the lead- 
ing fraternity in the college. It has initiated 260 
members, of whom eighteen are active members. Its 
record in the class room and in the social and ath- 
letic life of the college has been an enviable one. 

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Penn. Zeta was established at Dickinson College, Dickinson 
Carlisle, Penn., in 1859. This college was founded 
in 1783 and is almost the first founded and sup- 
ported by the Methodist Episcopal Church. It has 
a faculty of thirty-two members with 460 students. 
The Zeta Chapter has always been one of the most 
famous and active in the fraternity, and has initiated 
a total of 335 members, of whom twenty remain as 
active members. Its uniform strength has been 
largely due to the close touch it has kept with its 
Alumni, w^ho have been a tower of strength to it. 
For forty years its annual symposium has been a 
leading event in Dickinson. It has always occupied 
a prominent place in the college life and almost one- 
half of the honors taken by students of the college 
have been secured by its members. Over two-thirds 
of its members have pursued their college courses 
to the end and taken their degrees. The chapter 
owns and occupies an excellent chapter house. 

Penn. Eta was established at Franklin Marshall Franklin 
College, Lancaster, Pa., in i860 by the absorption Marshall 
of the local society that had been founded two years 
previously. The college is a continuation of Frank- 
lin College founded by Ben Franklin in 1787, and 
is under the patronage of the Reformed Church. It 
now has twent3^-seven members in its faculty, and 
405 students. Through the hearty co-operation of 
its active members with the Alumni, the chapter has 
been able to preserve a high average standard, with- 
out the usual fluctuations peculiar to under- grad- 
uate organizations. Its total membership is 227, of - 
whom sixteen are active. 

Penn. Theta was founded in Lafayette College, Lafayette 
Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1869. The college was 
organized in 1824 and is under the control of the 
Presbyterian Church. It has a faculty of thirty-one 
with 350 students. The number of prize men among 
the charter members gave the chapter at once a lead- 
ing position in the college, which it has since main- 



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tained. It has frequently taken a prominent part 
in college athletics. Its total membership is 240, 
of whom fourteen are active. Many of its younger 
Alumni are making excellent records. 

Pennsylvania Penn. Iota was established at the University of 
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1877. This insti- 
tution is the out-growth of Penn's famous Charity 
School established in 1740. It was taken over by 
the State and reorganized in 1810, and now has a 
faculty of 345 members with 3,350 students. In its 
early years this chapter, was exceedingly strong, 
and almost every important position in the student 
world at the university w^as occupied by one of its 
members, but a mistaken conservatism reduced it to 
a low ebb in 1889. It has, however, in later years, 
regained a prominent position in the university, and 
has recently, through the generosity of Mrs. Coch- 
ran, become possessed of what is probably the hnest 
chapter house occupied by any chapter of our fra- 
ternity. Its total membership is 268, of whom thirty 
are active. Its Alumni are especially prominent in 
medical and scientific circles. 

Swarthmcre Penn. Kappa was established at Swarthmore Col- 
lege, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, in 1889. The col- 
lege is controlled by the Society of Friends and was 
founded in 1869. It has twenty-nine members in the 
faculty and 280 students. Being the first fraternity 
in the school, Phi Kappa Psi had first choice, and 
Penn.. Kappa has, since its beginning, continued to 
take the pick of the college. Although the attend- 
ance in tlie school has been small, the chapter has 
always been above the average in size, while the 
high character and abilities of its members, many of 
whom occupy places of prominence in the business 
world, remarkable for men of their years, has given 
the chapter a position absolutely unique in the fra- 
ternity. Its total membership is 118, of whom seven- 
teen are active. Chapter houses are forbidden by 
the college authorities, so it is one of the few chap- 
ters that does not live in a house. 



SECOND DISTRICT. 

New Hampshire Alpha was estabhshed at Dart- Dartmotrth 
mouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1896. 
The college is a famous one, having been founded 
by royal charter in 1769. It is non-sectarian and now 
has ninety-two members in its faculty with 1,100 
students in attendance. From the first the chapter 
has counted among its members some of the best 
men in Dartmouth. The chapter has always been 
large and prominent in all college activities, winning 
many prizes and scholarships, and supplying many 
of the best athletes in the university. Its total mem- 
bership is 130, of whom thirty-two are active. 

Massachusetts Alpha was organized at Amherst Amherst 
College in 1895. The college was established in 
1821, is non-sectarian, and now has a faculty of forty 
with 450 students in attendance. The chapter occu- 
pies an excellent chapter house surrounded by beau- 
tiful grounds. It has always had a large member- 
ship of good men who have taken a prominent part 
in all branches of college life, and of late years it 
has competed successfully with its rich and long 
established rivals. Its total membership is 138, of 
whom thirty-four are active. 

Rhode Island Alpha was established at Brown Brown 
University, Providence, R. L, in 1902. The univer- 
sity was established in 1764, and is controlled by the 
Baptist Church. It now has eighty-one members 
in its faculty with 928 students. The chapter has 
always been of good size and high rank in scholar- 
ship, while taking an active part in all college activ- 
ities. Its total memibership is forty-nine, of whom 
twenty are active. Like the other new England 
chapters, its Alumni are still too young to have at- 
tained the degree of success and eminence necessary 
to secure mention in the lists of the Record, but for 
their years they have done remarkably well. 

New York Alpha Chapter was established at Cornell 
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1869, by 

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members of Ohio Alpha, who had eone there for 
post-graduate work. The university was estabhshed 
m ib68, 1 non-sectarian, and has a faculty of 441 
members with 3,841 students. The high character 
ot Its founders made the chapter prominent in the 
university from its birth, but it became inactive in 
1^77 and remained so until its re-establishment in 
1^5, since which time it has occupied a prominent 
and honorable position in the universitv. Thouo-h 
conservative, it has usually been one of^our largl'st 
chapters It owns a fine chapter house especially 
designed and built for it. Its total membership is 
2b2, of whom twenty-eight are active. 

Syracuse New York Beta was established at Syracuse Uni- 
versity, Syracuse, New York, in 1883. The univer- 
sity was established in 1870 under the patronage of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and now has a 
taculty of 205 members with 2,800 students After 
an early struggle against long established rivals, the 
chapter secured a leading place in the fraternity 
world at Syracuse and has for several vears been one 
ot the largest, strongest, and most successful chap- 
ters m the fraternity, standing for all that is best 
m college life and exemplifving in everv respect 
the all-round ideals of our fraternitv. Its "'members 
have been especially prominent in the lines of lit- 
erature, college journalism and athletics. It occu- 
pies an excellent chapter house of its own and has 
initiated 224 members, of whom twentv-seven are 
active. 

Columbia New York Gamma was established at Columbia 
University, New York City, in 1872. This institu- 
tion was tounded as Kings College in 1754, and now 
occupies a magnificent set of buildings on Mornincr- 
side Heights in New York City. It is non-sectarian, 
and has a faculty of 487 members with almost 5,900 
students attending. The chapter became inactive in 
1670, but was re-estabhshed in 1892. Several mem- 
^vv^tr^^ old chapter have been verv successful in 
public life, while the re-established chapter has taken 

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a prominent place in .college activities, particularly 
in athletics. It is one of our largest active chapters 
and is noted for its broad view and democratic spirit. 
Its total membership is 175, of whom twenty-six 
are active. 

New York Epsilon was established at Colgate Colgate 
University, Hamilton, New York, in 1887. Colgate 
was founded in 1820 and is controlled by the Bap- 
tist Church. New York Epsilon came into the fra- 
ternity fully organized, as it had existed before as 
a local society called "Aeonia." It early established 
itself in a good chapter house, and has always main- 
tained a chapter of large size and excellent quality, 
competing successfully with its older rivals. Its 
members are known for their many sterling quali- 
ties and their attachment for their college and chap- 
ter. Its total membership is 196, of whom thirty- 
two are active. 



New York Zeta was established at Brooklyn Poly- Brooklyn 
technic Institute in 1893. This school was founded Polytechnic 
in 1854, is non-sectarian, and now has a faculty of 
fifty-four members with 555 students in attendance. 
The institution occupies a large place in the affec- 
tions of many of the leading and oldest families in 
the City of Brookhm, who give it their miquestioned 
support. This explains how it happened that the 
charter members of Zeta, were one of the finest 
aggregations of young men ever received into our 
fraternity. It further explains how it has been pos- 
sible, although the number of students has frequently"^ 
been small, to steadily maintain a large chapter of 
such a remarkably high character. No chapter sur- 
passes Zeta in loyalty and devotion to the fra- 
ternity, and although young, many of its members 
have already made their mark. Its total member- 
ship is eighty-six, of whom eighteen are active. 



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THIRD DISTRICT. 

Joims !Mar\'land Alpha was established at Johns Hop- 

Hopkins kins University, Baltimore, ^Maryland, in 1879. The 
university was founded by Johns Hopkins in 1876. 
It is non-sectarian, and now has a faculty of 168 
with 748 students. As the university laid particular 
stress on post graduate work, the fraternity ma- 
terial was in the early days comparatively meagre, 
and the chapter was for many years one of our 
smallest in size, but the quality of this chapter has 
been of the highest. It has been exceedingly active 
in the athletic and literary life of the university 
and has given us some of the most prominent men 
who have ever worn the Shield. Its total member- 
ship is 133 ,of whom twelve are active. 

Virginia Virginia Alpha was established in 1853 at the 

University of Virginia by Charles P. T. Moore, 
one of the founders of the fraternity. The univer- 
sity was founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1825, and 
has held a unique place among American educational 
institutions from its establishment. At the present 
time it has a faculty of fifty-six with 706 students 
in attendance. The chapter has never been large, 
having an average active attendance of only sixteen, 
but the quality has been remarkable, and the chap- 
ter is famous for its many distinguished members. 
The chapter has just moved into a splendid chapter 
house built especially for it by one of its Alumni. 
Its total membership is 2>1^' 

Washington Virginia Beta was established in Washington and 
and Lee Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, 1855. This 
institution was founded in 1749, and was endowed 
by our first president in 1789. It is non-sectarian 
and has at the present time thirty members in the 
faculty and 375 students. The establishment of 
this chapter was the first effort of the fraternity in 
the line of expansion, and its long and honorable 
career has fully justified the wisdom of its estab- 



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lishment. This is our smallest chapter, havinpr an 
average active membership of only nine, though in 
the early days the average was very much higher. 
A new regime has recently been inaugurated in the 
university, which it is hoped will increase the at- 
tendance and enable the chapter to resume its for- 
mer size. Its total membership is 198. 

West Virginia Alpha was established at the Uni- West 
versity of West Virginia, in 1890. The institution Virginia 
was chartered by the State in 1867, and now has a 
faculty of seventy members with 1105 students in 
attendance. Being the first college fraternity to be 
established at the university, this chapter has al- 
ways been able to secure for itself the choicest ma- 
terial in the university, and while conservative in 
the selection of members the chapter has been of 
good size and of a quality so high that the major 
part of all the college honors have come to its mem- 
bers. It has recently built and moved into one of 
the finest chapter houses owned in the fraternity. 
Its Alumni are rapidly coming to the front and for 
3^oung men several have reached prominent positions. 
Its total membership is 115, of whom eighteen are 
active. 

Mississippi Alpha was established at the Univer- Mississippi 
sity of Mississippi, in 1857. The university was 
established by the State at Oxford, in 1848, and has 
a faculty of twenty members with 400 students. At 
the outbreak of the Civil War the entire membership 
of the chapter enlisted in the Confederate Army, and 
during the struggle almost half of them were killed, 
while the survivors were so scattered that the chap- 
ter was not re-organized again until 1881. Since 
which time, however, it has had an honorable career, 
largely because of the prominence and position of 
the surviving members of the early chapter. The 
chapter is remarkable for the number of its mem- 
bers who have been elected to the State Senate and 
the State Legislature. Its total membership is 174, 
of whom twelve are active. 

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Tennessee Delta was organized at Vanderbilt Uni- 
versity, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1901. The uni- 
versity was founded in 1872 and is under the pat- 
ronage of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 
It now has a faculty of 105 members with 800 stu- 
dents in attendance. This chapter is strongly sup- 
ported by the many rich and prominent Alumni 
from old southern chapters, who live in and near 
Nashville, and it has, as a result, drawn largely 
from Phi Psi families for its members. The chap- 
ter has been small but is growing in size rapidly. 
It has recently built and moved into a splendid chap- 
ter house of its own. Its total membership is thirty- 
one, of whom fourteen are active. 

Texas Texas Alpha, at the University of Texas, was es- 

tablished in 1904. The university was established 
by the State in 1883, and now has a faculty of 113 
with 1,486 students in attendance. The petitioners 
from Texas were well organized and included many 
of the leading students in the university, so that 
the chapter was able upon its installation to take a 
leading place among the fraternities of Texas. This 
is one of our finest chapters, of good size and al- 
ready noted for the sturdy character, the independ- 
ence and the ability of its members, many of whom 
will undoubtedly be heard from at an early date. It 
occupies an excellent chapter house and has a total 
of thirty-seven members, of whom eighteen are 
active. 

FOURTH DISTRICT. 

Ohio Ohio Alpha was established at Ohio Wesleyan 

Wesleyan University, in 1861. The university was founded in, 
1844, and is under the patronage of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. It now has a faculty of 130 
members with 1,233 students. Ohio Alpha was one 
of the few chapters that continued active during 
the Civil War. It is one of the largest chapters in 
the fraternity, having initiated 393 members, and has 
had a most successful career. It has given the fra- 
ternity more distinguished men than any other chap- 

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ter. It has always occupied a prominent place in 
college life and has furnished the university with 
many members of its faculty. 1 he active member- 
ship of about sixteen, has been smaller of recent 
years than it was in the days of Ohio Alpha's great- 
est prosperity and the giants of those days have set 
a pace with which the initiates of later years will 
find it difficult to keep up. The chapter expects to 
build a new chapter house during the coming year. 

Ohio Beta was established at Wittenberg College Wittenberg 
in 1866. The college was founded in 1845, and is 
controlled by the Lutheran Church. It has a faculty 
of twenty-six and 354 students. From its organiza- 
tion the chapter has contained most of the leaders 
in all the college activities, and as might have been 
expected, its members have been successful out of 
college. The chapter has usually been of fair size 
and extremely high spirit. It has recently purchased 
a new chapter house which is excellently located. 
It is the only chapter at Wittenberg which owns its 
house. Its total membership is 261, of whom six- 
teen are active. 

Ohio Delta was established at the University of Ohio 
Ohio, in 1880. The university was founded by the 
State in 1870, and now has a faculty of 140 members 
with 1,910 students in attendance. The chapter has 
been conservative in the choice of members, and 
though frequently small in numbers, its members 
have held a prominent place in the university life. 
While it is one of the younger chapters, it is rapidly 
coming to the front as a producer of successful and- 
prominent Alumni. Its total membership is 178, of 
whom fifteen are active. 

Indiana Alpha was established at DePauw Uni- De Patrw 
versity, in 1865. The college v.as founded in 1837 
and was known as Indiana Asbury University until 
its endowment by Mr. W. C. DePauw. It has a 
faculty of forty-one members with 742 students. In- 
diana Alpha has always been noted for the intensity 



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of its fraternity spirit which glows with a warmth 
unequalled by any other chapter, though our fra- 
ternity itself has this for its distinguishing quality. 
It has for years held unquestioned leadership among 
the fraternities at De Pauw and has more members 
of Phi Beta Kappa than any other chapter. It has 
taken far more than its share of prizes and college 
honors and for years held the leading athletes of the 
university. About eighty per cent, of its initiates 
have graduated. Its members have been unusually 
active in the fraternity and successful in public af- 
fairs. It is one of the largest chapters in the fra- 
ternity and is a leader in that small group of chap- 
ters that have given to the fraternity most of its 
prominent members. It was the first chapter at 
De Pauw to establish itself in a chapter house and 
now lives in a fine large house of its own facing 
directly on the campus. Its total membership is 
395, of whom twenty-seven are active members. 

Indiana Indiana Beta was established at Indiana State 

University, Bloomington, Indiana, in 1869. The 
State University was founded in 1820, and now has 
a faculty of seventy with 1,538 students. The chap- 
ter has had a remarkable career and has taken the 
leading place in college honors and activities for 
over thirty years. It is one of the larger chapters 
in the fraternity, and its spirit and enthusiasm is 
high. Few chapters have kept in closer touch with 
their Alumni or profited more by Alumni support. 
It has furnished the fraternity with a large number 
of its distinguished members and is promising to do 
even better in the future than it has in the past. It 
occupies a large stone chapter house built by its 
Alumni. Its total membership is 361, of whom 
twenty are active. 

PufdtJC Indiana Delta was established at Purdue Uni- 

versity at Lafayette, Indiana, in 1901. The univer- 
sity was founded by the State in 1874, and now has 
a faculty of 116 with 1,524 students in attendance. 
The campaign to secure Indiana Delta was the most 



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strenuous the fraternity has ever known, and as a 
result the chapter entered the fraternity compact, 
thoroughly organized, and living in their own chap- 
ter house. Backed by the Phi Psi Alumni of the 
whole State this chapter has secured the pick of 
the young men coming to Purdue, and from its 
founding has been one of the strong chapters in the 
fraternity. Its Alumni are already noted for their 
loyalty and spirit, and they are of a kind to make 
their mark in the world as they grow older. Total 
membership seventy-nine, of whom nineteen are 
active. 

Illinois Alpha was established at North-Western North 
University, Evanston, Illinois, in 1864. The school, 'Western 
established in 1851, is the largest and richest under 
the control of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It 
has at the present time a faculty of 276 members 
with 3,834 students in attendance. Illinois Alpha 
was for years noted for its large active membership 
and for the great number of prizes and oratorical 
contests that it won in the university. It is also 
famous for the place which many of its early mem- 
bers have secured in the educational world and in 
the Church. Its total membership is 234, of whom 
fourteen are active. 

Illinois Beta was established at the old University Chicago 
of Chicago, in 1865. This institution was first 
founded in 1857 by the Baptist Church of Chicago, 
but closed its doors on account of financial dif- 
ficulties in 1886. The university was re-established 
in 1892, and now has a faculty of 400 and 4,598 
students. As soon as the university was well on 
its feet again the Chicago members of the old Beta 
Chapter brought about its re-organization. The 
members of the old chapter were a rare lot and 
easily led the fraternity world in the old university. 
Many of them have been very successful. The re- 
organized chapter is still young, but it has been 
strong and prominent in the college and its mem- 



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bers will doubtless emulate the examples of those 
early initiates. It occupies a splendid stone chapter 
house of its own which has become ''home" for 
most of the younger Alumni of Chicago. Its total 
membership is 193, of whom eighteen are active. 

Illinois Illinois Delta was established at the University 

of Illinois, in 1904. The university was founded by 
the State in 1867, and now has a faculty of 402 
with 3.872 students in attendance. The chapter 
was organized by Phi Psis from other chapters who 
were doing graduate work in the university, and so 
began its existence with a set of members of promi- 
nence in college and experienced in fraternity work. 
It is taking a leading place in all the university activ- 
ities, and will undoubtedly become one of our strong- 
est and largest chapters. It occupies a good chapter 
house, and expects soon to build a large and com- 
modious one of its own. Its total membership is 
thirty, of whom nineteen are active. 

Michigan jMichigan Alpha was established at the University 
of i^Iichigan, in 1876. The university was founded 
by the State in 1837, and now has a faculty of 305 
with 4,500 students in attendance. This chapter was 
one of the first to establish itself in a chapter house, 
and in 1890 it purchased the splendid property which 
it now occupies. The house has recently been re- 
modeled to make it one of the most commodious 
and best equipped houses occupied by any chapter 
of any fraternity. Though the active membership 
has usually been large the chapter has always been 
extremely conservative in its fraternity policy, and 
exclusive in the selection of its members. Its total 
membership is 231, of whom twenty-one are active. 

FIFTH DISTRICT. 

"Wisconsin Wisconsin Alpha was established at the Univer- 
sity of Wisconsin, in 1875. This institution was 
established by the State in 1848, and now has a 
faculty of 257 with 3,350 students in attendance. It 
was the second chapter established in Madison, and 



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organized as a protest against the standard of stu- 
dent life maintained by the other fraternity there, 
it gathered into its fold many of the strongest men 
in the university. For years it easily stood at the 
head of the fraternity world in Madison, but pros- 
perity turned the heads of some later initiates and 
the chapter became inactive in 1893, and remained 
so until its re-organization in 1897, since v^hich time 
it has had a successful career. It owns and occu- 
pies the finest chapter house at Madison, a splendid 
mansion costing over $30,000. The total member- 
ship is 246, of whom nineteen are active. 

Wisconsin Gamma was established at Beloit Col- BeloA 
lege, Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1881. Ttie cuUe^e is tion- 
setaarian and w^js tojunied in 1846. It lias facullv of 

thirty with over 500 students in attendance. The 
chapter has always been of fair size, and is famous 
for its loyalty and aggressiveness. It occupies a 
fine chapter house and many of its Alumni, though 
young, have made excellent places for themselves 
already. The chapter is prominent in college ath- 
letics, and its members are leaders in the class-room. 
Its total membership is 164, of whom sixteen are 
active. 

Minnesota Beta was established at the University 
of Minnesota, in 1888. The university was estab- 
lished by the State in 1868, and now has a faculty 
of 290 members with 4,000 students in attendance. 
The charter members of Minnesota Beta were one 
of the strongest groups of young men ever taken 
into the fraternity, and with such a beginning it is 
not surprising that its brief history should be such 
a record of honors won in all branches of university 
life, particularly in oratory and athletics. The chap- 
ter has always been of good size and has been noted 
for the strong, aggressive character of its members, 
many of whom, though still young, have achieved 
remarkable success. The chapter occupies a com- 
modious chapter house, and has a total member- 
ship of 142, of whom twenty are active. 

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Iowa Iowa Alpha was established in the University of 

Iowa in 1867. The university was established by the 
State in 1854, and now has a faculty of 130 w^ith 
1,560 students. The chapter became inactive in 1876, 
but was re-organized in 1885, and since that time has 
had a splendid career. The university has drawn a 
fine class of students and Iowa Alpha has had a 
strong chapter of a homogeneous character, though 
one a little below the average in size. From its 
comparatively small membership an unusually large 
number have become prominent in public life. Its 
total membership is 191, of whom fifteen are active. 

Kansas Kansas Alpha was established in the University 

of Kansas, in 1876, The institution was founded 
by the State in 1864, and now has a faculty of 180 
members with 1,540 students. The spirit of the 
pioneer was strong in the early members and the 
chapter has been noted for its independence and 
sturdy character. The chapter has usually been large 
and enthusiastic and its members have been promi- 
nent in the university, active in the fraternity, and 
successful in public life. Its Alumni list is one to be 
proud of and the present active members are the 
kind that sees the mark set for them and then makes 
new records. Its total membership is 232, of whom 
nineteen are active. 

Nebraska Nebraska Alpha was established at the University 
of Nebraska, in 1895. The university was founded 
by the State in 1869, and now has a faculty of 172 
with 2,728 students in attendance. The chapter was 
organized by a band of strong young men in the 
university who w^ere unwilling to conform to the 
standards of the existing fraternities there. From 
the beginning they have been the leaders of the 
Greek world in Nebraska, and have always main- 
tained a large chapter of fine men, who have ex- 
celled both in the class-room and on the campus. 
Her Alumni, though young, are making splendid 
records and are everywhere known for their sturdy 



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character and fraternity loyalty. They occupy a fine 
chapter house of their own and have initiated 129 
members, of whom twenty-six are active. 

California Beta was established at Leland Stan- Leiand 
ford University, Palo Alto, California, in 1891, the Stanford 
same year in which the university was established. 
The school is non-sectarian, and now has a faculty 
of 121 members with 1,605 students. The chapter 
was the first to establish itself in the university, 
and was made up at the beginning, of experienced 
fraternity men, who had flocked to Leland Stan- 
ford from other colleges, so that it at once became 
a leadinor factor in the student activities and college 
life of the new institution. It occupies a large and 
beautiful chapter house built especially for it and 
excellently located. Its Alumni are prosperous and 
successful, while the active chapter, though of only 
medium size, is composed of men of fine ability 
and sterling character. Its total membership is 109, 
of wliom seventeen are active. 

California Gamma was established at the Uni- California 
versity of California, in 1899. The university was 
founded by the Stale in i860, and now has a faculty 
of 262 with 3,294 students in attendance. Many of 
the charter members were honor men and so the 
chapter has always stood well to the front in the 
university. They own and occupy an excellent chap- 
ter house especially designed for them by one of 
their members. The chapter is too young and too 
small yet for its Alumni to have become very promi- 
nent, but many of them are young men of much 
prominence. Their total membership is sixty-one, 
of wliom sixteen nre nctive. 



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Inactive Chapters 

Although our fraternity had expanded rapidly, it 
closed its first decade of existence without the loss 
of a chapter. Not until the out-break of the Civil 
War, which closed the doors of almost every south- 
ern school, did disaster come to any active chapter. 
The first chapter to succumb was Tennessee Alpha. 

La Grange Tennessee Alpha organized at La Grange College, 
La Grange, Tennessee, in 1859, and for two years 
had a prosperous existence, but in 1861 every mem- 
ber of the chapter enlisted in the Confederate Army, 
and almost half of them lost their lives during the 
struggle which followed. The college buildings 
were burned during the war by the Union Army 
and were never rebuilt. Several men of prominence 
are found among its surviving members. Its total 
membership was twenty-eight. 

Mississippi Mississippi Beta was organized at Mississippi Col- 
lege, Clinton, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1861. 
The chapter had been in existence but a few weeks 
when the war broke out and every member enlisted. 
Several were killed during the war, and as the col- 
lege was slow to recover, the survivors never reas- 
sembled. Its total membership was fifteen. 

Kentucky Kentucky Alpha was established in 1865, at Ken- 
tucky University, Lexington, Kentucky. No initiates 
were made except the charter members, for faculty 
opposition quickly forced the infant chapter to sus- 
pend. Total members, thirteen. 

Cornell Iowa Gamma was established in 1868, at Cornell 

College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa. The chapter lived but 
three years when it was forced to disband by the 
college authorities, in order to allay the anti-fra- 
ternity agitation among the students. During its 
short life it initiated a number of men who have 
become prominent in the educational world. Total 
membership, forty-two. 

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Tennessee Gamma was organized at the Univer- Nashville 
sity of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1870, and 
had a vigorous and successful life until 1873, when 
asiatic cholera broke out in Nashville. The college 
closed, the students scattered, and the chapter dis- 
banded. Total members, eighteen. 

Missouri Alpha v^as established in 1869, at Mis- Missouri 
souri State University, Columbia, Missouri. The 
university was founded by the State in 1839, and now 
has a faculty of 149 with 1,900 students in attend- 
ance. For five years the chapter had a vigorous 
and most successful life, initiating many of the 
strongest men in the university, but death removed 
its most active member, and the chapter died for 
lack of leadership. Congressmen, bankers, railway 
officials, and many of the leading lawyers and doc- 
tors of the State, are numbered among its initiates. 
The day cannot be far distant when Missouri Alpha 
will be re-established on a basis w^orthy of the char- 
acter and success of its early m.embers. Total mem- 
bership, seventy-two. 

Wisconsin Beta was established in 1876, at Racine Racine 
College, Racine, Wisconsin. Its establishment was 
ill-advised, the college being small with a faculty 
of only five members and about fifty students. The 
faculty prohibited the charter members from initiat- 
ing any others, and the chapter returned its charter 
the following year. Total members, eleven. 

Tennessee Beta was established at Cumberland Cumberland 
University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in i860. After a 
precarious existence during the war it began a career 
of remarkable vigor and success, dominating the 
student life of the university and securing the lion's 
share of its honors. Its membership was always 
small, but choice, but it gradually became confined 
to the Law Department until 1879, when every mem- 
ber of the chapter either graduated or failed to re- 
turn, and the chapter gave up its charter. Among 
its Alumni are many of the most prominent and 



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successful members of the fraternity. Total mem- 
bers, seventy-five. 

Bethany Virginia Delta was established in 1859, at Bethany 
College, Bethany, West Virginia, and for twenty- 
one years flourished and prospered. In 1880, be- 
• cause of faculty refusal to punish a student guilty 
of a vicious assault on a member of .the <"hripter the 
members voted to leave college in a body, which 
was done, and in 1882, it being decided that no at- 
tempt to revive the chapter should be made, the 
charter was surrendered. Its total membership was 
162, and among them are to be found some of the 
most distinguished men of the South. 

Randolph Virginia Epsilon was organized at Randolph- 
Macon Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, in 1870. For 
twelve years the chapter had a prosperous existence, 
taking nearly all the honors of the college, but the 
death of Professor Estill robbed it of its chief sup- 
port and guiding spirit, and the charter was sur- 
rendered in 1882. Total members, thirty-seven. 

Monmouth Illinois Gamma was established at Monmouth Col- 
lege, Monmouth, Illinois, in 1871. The organizers 
of the chapter v/ere the leading men of the college 
and from the first the chapter took practically every 
college honor offered to the students. After four 
years the college authorities ordered the fraternities 
to disband, but for ten years thereafter the Gamma 
chapter continued a "sub rosa" existence, continuing 
to initiate the leading men of the school. Informers, 
however, called down the wrath of the faculty upon 
it in 1884 and the chapter was forced to surrender 
its charter. Its members have been one of the most 
successful groups of men ever taken into the fra- 
ternity, and include Theodore P. Shonts, President 
of the Panama Canal Commission ; Congressmen H. 
M. Hogg, of Colorado, and James McKinney, of 
Illinois, and President Kane, of Wabash College. 

Carleton IMinnesota Alpha was established at Carleton Col- 

lege, Northfield, Minnesota, in 1883, and from the 



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first secured the best men in the college. Faculty 
opposition, however, soon rendered their condition 
intolerable, and in 1888 the chapter surrendered its 
charter and almost the entire membership went to 
the University of Minnesota, where they practically 
became the founders of Minnesota Beta. Total 
membership, forty-five. 

Iowa Delta was established at Simpson College, Simpson 
Indianola, Iowa, in 1882. The chapter had secured 
the leading students of the college for its rhaiter 
members and so had a most successful existence for 
five years, but the decline of the college with the 
coincident scarcity of fraternity material, decided the 
members upon surrendering their charter in 1889, 
while they, themselves, scattered to other colleges 
to finish their courses. Total membership, sixty- 
three. 

New York Delta was established at Hobart Col- Hobart 
lege, Geneva, New York, in 1881. The chapter was 
always small, and with less than 100 students in 
attendance at the college, fraternity material was 
scarce. The chapter returned its charter in 1885 
but was persuaded to continue its existence, which it 
did until 1893, when internal dissensions again dis- 
rupted it and it surrendered its charter. Total 
membership, forty-eight. 

California Alpha was established in 1881, at the Pacific 
University of the Pacific at San Jose, California. 
During its existence it was one of the strongest 
and most vigorous chapters in the fraternity, hav- 
ing a large membership of the highest character. 
Its members secured almost all of the college honors, 
and it w;is the tiist chapter m the fraierMiy to 
own and occupy a chapter house in which its members 
lived. In 1892, upon the establishment nearby, of 
Leland Stanford University, almost the entire stu- 
dent body transferred from the University of the 
Pacific to Leland Stanford and with them went the 
entire membership of California Alpha, who thus 

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Wooster 



South 
Carolina 



became the founders of California Beta. Its total 
membership was seventy-five, among whom are 
many of the leading men of California. 

Ohio Gamma was established in 1871, in Wooster 
University, Wooster, Ohio. For tw^enty-one years, 
a large chapter, noted for its fraternity enthusiasm 
and the loyalty of its Alumni, it represented our 
fraternity at this institution, but in 1892 the insti- 
tution went into decline and a large portion of its 
students left it for other schools. The scarcity of 
fraternity material led the remaining members of 
the chapter to surrender their charter, and so closed 
the existence of a chapter that has given the fra- 
ternity many of its most devoted and enthusiastic 
members. Its total membership was 137. 

South Carolina Alpha was established in 1857, at 
South Carolina University, Columbia, South Caro- 
lina. For thirty-five years this chapter was one of 
the strongest and most active in the fraternity, full 
of prominent men, prize winners in college and suc- 
cessful in their business after graduation, but in 
1892 the rising tide of populism engulfed the uni- 
versity. A populistic legislature cut off its class- 
ical and literary courses, and reduced it to an agri- 
cultural college, whereupon the remaining members 
surrendered their charter with sorrow and regret 
and left the school. Total membership 114. 

George District of Columxbia Alpha was organized at 

Washington Columbian University, Washington, D. C, in 1868, 
and for over thirty years maintained a prosperous 
and successful career. In 1899 the entire active 
membership enlisted in the Spanish War, and the 
Executive Council, finding no active members in 
attendance in the university, recalled the charter. 
Its total membership is 188, which is the largest of 
any inactive chapter. This chapter has given to the 
fraternity a large number of its most distinguished 
Alumni, particularly in professional and scientific 
lines. The university has recently been re-organized 



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under the direction of Congress as The George ^ 
Washington University, and now has a faculty of ^ 

182 members with 1,500 students in attendance. It *^ 
is to be hoped that its charter, which was rather 

hastily withdrawn, may be returned at an early 
date, and that, supported by the famous Washing- 
ton Alumni Association, it may continue a career 
worthy of its distinguished past. 

Virginia Gamma was established in 1856, at Hampden 
Hampden-Sidney College, Prince Edward Co., Vir- Sidney 
ginia, and f or over forty years maintained an 
active and successful existence. The chapter was 
always small, but made up of choice spirits, who 
made it an especial point to win most of the best 
prizes offered in the college, but the decline of the 
college and the scarcity of fraternity material made 
it impossible to maintain the chapter up to the old 
standard, so in 1900 the charter was withdrawn. Its 
total membership was 172. 

Indiana Gamma was established in 1870, at Wa- Wabash 
bash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana. During its 
career the chapter ran the whole gamut of fraternity 
experiences, from easy leadership to the verge of 
extinction, only to revive again. The college was 
always small, rarely having over 200 students in 
attendance, and fraternity material was scarce. The 
establishment of Indiana Delta in 1901 sounded the 
knell of Indiana Gamma, and the chapter surren- 
dered its charter, and every member transferred to 
Indiana Delta. Its total membership w^as 174. 



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Alumni Associations 

Phi Kappa Psi is noted for the loyalty and enthu- 
siasm of its Alumni members, and Alumni Associa- 
tions are maintained at Easton, Johnston, Lancaster, 
!Meadville, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Sunbury in 
Pennsylvania, at Boston, New York, Buffalo, Syra- 
cuse, Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, at Ander- 
son and Indianapolis in Indiana, at Bucyrus, Cincin- 
nati, Cleveland, Columbus, Newark, Springfield and 
Toledo in Ohio, at San Francisco, Denver, Minne- 
apolis, Duluth, Kansas City, Iowa City, Omaha, 
Portland and Seattle. 

Easton The Association at Easton was organized in De- 

cember, 1902. It consists chiefly of the graduate 
members of the Pennsylvania Theta Chapter resident 
in Easton. The Association meets frequently with 
the active chapter at Lafayette College and makes 
it its business to assist and support that chapter. 
Secretary P. C. EVANS, 

Easton, Pa. 

Johnstown Johnstown (Pa.) Alumni Association was estab- 
lished in 1902. It has a total membership of thirty- 
five representing ten different chapters. Four meet- 
ings a year are held, two bem^ busiuej^s meet- 
ings, and two on the occasions of the Christmas 
Banquet and the Summer Outing. It is noted for 
its enthusiasm and almost every member turns out 
to every meeting. A number of the members are 
associated with each other in business, as in the case 
of the Love Manufacturing Company, every officer 
of which is a member of the fraternity. 

Secretary, H. H. PENROD, 

Lancaster The Association at Lancaster, Pa., was chartered 
in April, 1902, though an informal organization had 
been in existence for several years before. The As- 
sociation has a membership of twenty-four repre- 



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senting four different chapters. Its chief occupation 
is to assist and aid the local chapter at Franklin 
Marshall College. 

Secretary, T. ROBERTS APPEL, 
No. 33 North Duke Street, Lancaster. 

The Meadville (Pa.) Alumni Association was or- Meadville 
ganized in 1900, and has a total membership of 
twenty-five representing three dift'erent chapters. 
The chief purpose of the Association is to assist 
the local chapter at Allegheny College and it has 
been largely through the efforts of this Association 
that the fine new chapter house for this chapter has 
been secured. 

Secretary, DR. C. C. LAFFER, 

Phoenix Block, Meadville. 

The Philadelphia Alumni Association was organ- Philadelphia 
ized in 1890. It is one of our largest Associations, 
having a total membership of over 200, but like 
other residents of the Quaker City, its members 
take their joys seriously and they even give the Phi 
Psi yell in tones subdued almost to a whisper. A 
feature of the Association meetings is its Annual 
Banquet on Founders' Day, at which about 100 are 
present. It is active in its aid to the chapters in 
Pennsylvania University and Swarthmore. 
Secretary, DR. H. MAXWELL LANGDEN, 

No. 1804 Chestnut St. 

The Pittsburg Alumni Association was established Pittsburg 
in IQOI, and has a total membership of 150, repre- 
senting fifteen different chapters. Four meetings a 
year are held with an average attendance of about 
fifty, three of the meetings being luncheons and 
smokers, and the fourth being the Annual Banquet 
on Founders' Day. The Association contains many 
very prominent lawyers and bankers, and is active 
in directing young men leaving Pittsburg for college, 
in the way thev should go. 

Secretary, L. REESE ALEXANDER, 

No. 210 Lewis Building, Pittsburg. 

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Sunbury The Sunbury Alumni Association was organized 
in February, 1905. It has a total membership of 
fifteen, representing three chapters. Three meetings 
a year are held, with an average attendance of ten 
members. The chief object of the Association is to 
further the interests of the nearby chapter at Buck- 
nell University. 

Secretary, C. W. CLE^IENT, 

Sunbury, Pa. 
Boston The Boston Alumni Association was established 
March 23, 1900. It has a total membership of forty- 
five, representing twenty chapters. Three meetings 
and dinners are held annually, with an average at- 
tendance of thirty. This Association has been a 
great factor in the establishment of the fraternity in 
New England. 

Secretary, E. T. HART^^IAN, 

No. 4 Joy Street, Boston. 
New York The New York Alumni Association was organ- 
ized in 1888 through the efforts of Walter L. Mc- 
Corkle. It is the largest, strongest and most active 
of all the Associations, having a total membership 
of over 300, representing thirty-five different chap- 
ters. Monthly dinners are held at the "Arena," No. 
39 West 31st Street, on the third IMonday night of 
every month from October to June. Especial promi- 
nence is given to the Annual Banquet in December 
and to the Founders' Day Dinner in February, at 
w^hich there is usually an attendance of about 135. 
Assistance and support is given to the two local 
chapters and all new Phi Psis coming to the city 
are given personal attention. 

Secretary, HENRY H. McCORKLE, 

No. 29 Wall Street. 
Buffalo The Buft'alo Association was organized in May, 

1898. It has a total membership of thirty-four, rep- 
resenting twelve chapters. Two regular dinners and 
business meetings are held every year, with an aver- 
age attendance of twenty. In addition to this, sev- 
eral luncheons are held. 

Secretary, W. S. SLADE, 

No. 720 Ellicot Square. 
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Syracuse Alumni Association was organized in Syracuse 
1902. It has a total membership of sixty-eight, 
representing eight different chapters. Seven meet- 
ings a year are held at the Chapter House of the 
Syracuse Chapter, with an average attendance of 
twenty. The Association is actively engaged in fur- 
thering the interests of the local active chapter. 
Secretary, H. B. BREWSTER, 

No. 9 City Hall. 

The Washington Alumni Association was chart- Wastington 
ered on December 6, 1901, though it had been in 
existence for a numlDer of years before that time. 
It has 100 members, representing twenty chapters. 
It holds five meetings a year, with an attendance 
averaging between fifty and seventy-five. Their ban- 
quets are noted for the number of famous men 
whose attendance they are able to secure because 
of the fact that they are held at the National Cap- 
itol. This association is to entertain the next Grand 
Arch Council. 

Secretary, JOHN SHERMAN, Jr., 

The Mendota, Washington, D. C. 

The Baltimore Alumni Association was chartered Baltimore 
in 1901, and succeeded an old association known as 
the Maryland Alumni Association. It has a mem- 
bership of 102, representing twelve chapters. Sev- 
eral meetings a year are held at the Maryland Alpha 
Chapter House, but two stated dinners, one in Octo- 
ber and one on Founders' Day in February, are 
held in some one of the leading hotels. The Asso- 
ciation contains many of the most distinguished men 
in Baltimore, judges of the Supreme Court of the 
State, bankers and attorneys. Special attention is 
given to the welfare of the active chapter in Johns 
Hopkins University 

Secretary, ARTHUR W. MACHEN, Jr., 
Central Savings Bank Building, Baltimore. 

The Chicago Alumni Association was organized Chicago 
in 1889, and is one of the largest and most enthu- 



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siastic in the fraternity. It has a total membership 
of about 200, representing twenty-five different chap- 
ters. The feature of its year is the Annual Banquet 
in commemoration of Founders' Day. It is active in 
its support and assistance to the active chapters in 
Chicago and North-Western Universities. 

Secretary, FRED. H. CARPENTER, 

205 La Salle Street. 

Anderson The Anderson Alumni Association was organized 
in 1892 by the local band of Phi Psi enthusiasts. 
It has a total membership of twenty, representing 
five different chapters. Several meetings are held 
every year. Its chief business is to see that the 
desirable young men from^ Anderson join the right 
fraternity and that all of its members get down to 
the Annual Banquet in Indianaoolis. 

Secretary, ED. E. HENDEE, 

Anderson, Ind. 

Indianapolis The Indianapolis Alumni Association is the suc- 
cessor of the old Indiana Association which was 
originally organized in 1S92, and its membership 
practically includes every Phi Psi within the State. 
It has a membership of nearly 300, representing 
twenty dift'erent chapters. Monthly luncheons are held 
U' at the Columbia Club, at which the business of the 

Association is attended to, but the feature of the year 
is the Annual Banquet held on the eve of Thanks- 
giving, which is the largest and most enthusiastic 
regular function held by any organization of the 
fraternity. So many of its members are prominent 
in State affairs and official positions that these ban- 
quets are regarded as of political significance by the 
people of the Stafe. The Association is famous for 
the enthusiastic interest it takes in all matters per- 
taining to the fraternity, and in a large measure, 
credit is due to it for the remarkable strength and 
position of the Indiana chapters. 

Secretary, ELI D. ZARING, 

Care of The Star. 



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The Bucyrus Alumni Association was organized in Bucyris 
1897. It only has a membership of ten, representing 
three chapters. Only one regular meeting is held 
annually, but as many other meetings are held 
nearby, the members frequently attend the meetings 
of other Associations. 

Secretary, ED. G. BEALL, 

Bucyrus, Ohio. 

The Cincinnati Alumni Association was chartered Cincmnatx 
in 1899, though it had been preceded for nearly ten 
years by an informal organization existing without 
a charter. It has a total membership of thirty, rep- 
resenting ten chapters. Several meeting are held 
each year and the interests of all local Phi Psis are 
promoted. 

Secretary, CHARLES E. EVERETT, 

No. 207 Carlyle Building. 

The Cleveland Alumni Association was organized Cleveland 
in 1895. It has a total membership of sixty, repre- 
senting twenty-four chapters. Two regular meet- 
ings are held every year and a number of mformal 
luncheons between, with an avera^^e altendence of 
twenty-five. The Association is at present actively 
urging the claims of the richly endowed Case 
Scientific School for a charter from the fraternity. 
Secretary, JAMES A. BRADY, 
No. 1 103 Citizens' Bank Building. 

The Columbus Alumni Association was organ- 
ized in 1898, and has a membership of over 100, rep- 
resenting twelve different chapters. The feature of 
its year is the Annual Banquet, which has an aver- 
age attendance of about seventy-five. Many Phi 
Psis from different parts of the State find it con- 
venient to have business in Columbus on that date. 
The Association is fortunate in having a number of 
its members in prominent official positions in the 
State. It is active in its assistance to the local 
chapter at Ohio University. 

Secretary, W. G. NEFF, 
No. 20 East Broad Street, 

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Newark The Newark (O.) Alumni Association was or- 
ganized in 1896 by the local Phi Psis, who were 
headed by that enthusiast and inveterate convention 
goer, Ed. Kibler, who is now the President of the 
Ohio State Bar Association. A number of informal 
meetings are held during the year, but the chief at- 
tention is given to directing young men from New- 
ark to the colleges where Phi Kappa Psi is located. 
Secretary, ED. KIBLER, 

Newark, O. 

Springfield Springfield, Ohio, contains more Phi Psis than 
any other town of its size in America, and for years 
they have maintained an organization for the sup- 
port of the local chapter at Wittenberg and the pro- 
motion of their mutual interests. Its members man- 
age to monopolize most of the positions of promi- 
nence and profit in the city, for they are the leading 
lawyers, doctors, manufacturers, and bankers of the 
city. Its total membership is sixty-five, including 
several mayors, postmasters, judges and everything 
else worth having. 

Secretary, ROSCOE H. DEATON, 

No. 93 West Mulberry Street. 

Toledo The Toledo Alumni Association was organized 

in 1901. It has thirty- two members representing 
eight chapters. Monthly luncheons are held with 
an average attendance of twenty. The Association 
is particularly active in notifying the chapters of 
young men entering their schools from Toledo, and 
in promoting new schemes and reforms for advanc- 
ing the interests of the general fraternity. 

Secretary, J. GAZZEN MACKENZIE, 

Care of Ames-Bonnor Co., Toledo. 

San Francisco The San Francisco Alumni Association was char- 
tered in 1897. It has a total membership of fifty- 
six representing sixteen chapters. In addition to the 
Annual Banquet held on Founders' Day, at which 
about forty are usually present, the Association 
holds a number of business meetings and dinners 
during the year, which have an average attendance 

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of twenty-five each. The members of the Associa- 
tion also have an arrangement for meeting together 
for lunch every Saturday at one of the leading res- 
taurants in the city, an arrangement that has been 
found very pleasant and profitable. The Associa- 
tion has among its members many of the most 
prominent men in the State, and it is active in its 
assistance to the two California chapters. 

Secretary, C. S. DAVIDSON, 
No. 614 Rialto Building, San Francisco. 

The Denver Alumni Association which was Denver 
granted its charter in March, 1904, is the successor 
of the old Rocky Mountain Alumni Association that 
has been famous for many years. The Association 
has a membership of seventy-five, representing 
twenty-five chapters. A number of luncheons are 
held during the year with an average attendance 
of twenty-five, but the great feature of their meeting 
is the annual banquet held on Founders' Day, to 
which everybody turns out. This Association is 
famous for its push. They are booming some Phi 
Psi for nearly every oflfice in the State. The Asso- 
ciation is remarkable for the number of men prom.i- 
nent in political and business affairs that it contains. 
Secretary, ED. S. HARPER, 
No. 1336 Lawrence Street, Denver. 

Minneapolis Alumni Association includes Phi Minneapolis 
Psis not only of that city, but of St. Paul as well, 
and was chartered on February 3, 1891, as the Twin 
City Association, under which name it became 
famous for its activity in fraternity affairs. It 
has a total membership of over 150, representing 
over twenty chapters. Monthly smokers are held, 
except in February, when an elaborate banquet is 
held in observation of Founders' Day. An especial 
feature of the Association is its Summer outing 
held every Summer on one of Minnesota's beautiful 
lakes. While neglecting no interest of the general 



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fraternity, especial support and assistance is given to 
the local chapter in the University of Minnesota. 
Secretary, C. W. LAWRENCE, 
Care of Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul. 

Duluth The Duluth Alumni Asoociation was established 

in 1901, and has a membership of thirty drawn from 
nine different chapters. Meetings are held every 
month in one of the city clubs, while an Annual 
Banquet is held during the holidays. The meetings 
are largely social, though the Association is giving 
what assistance it can to the nearest chapters, and 
is aiding Minnesota Beta in securing a new Chapter 
House. 

Secretary, HARVEY S. CLAPP, 

No. eOOTurrey Buildmj^, Duluth. 

Kansas City Kansas City Alumni Association was organized in 
November, 1889. It has a total membership of 135, 
representing twelve different chapters. Its Annual 
Banquet is held on the evening before Thanks- 
giving and has become famous for the spirit of 
good cheer and loyalty to the fraternity manifested. 
Its membership includes many of the richest and 
most prominent men in the city, including the 
Mayor, the City Attorney, the Attorney General of 
the State, several of the local judges, and several 
of the leading capitalists and railroad men. Outside 
of the preservation of the Phi Kappa Psi spirit 
locally, the Association is chiefly interested in the 
welfare of Kansas' Alpha and the re-establishment 
of Missouri Alpha in the State University. 
Secretary, GEORGE A. PRESCOTT, 
Fidelity Trust Building, Kansas City. 

Iowa City The Iowa City Alumni Association was organized 
in January, 1905. It has a total membership of 
twenty-tive, representing three different chapters. 
The principal work of the Association is to unite 
the local Alumni for assistance and support to the 



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active chapter in the State University. Frequent 
meetings are held in the parlors of Iowa Alpha. 
Secretary, FRED C DRAKE, 

Iowa City, la. 

The Omaha Alumni Association was established Omaha 
in June, 1901. It has a total membership of seventy- 
eight, representing twenty different chapters. Six 
meetings a year are held at the Millard Hotel, wnth 
an average attendance of over twenty at each meet- 
ing. This is one of our most active and vigorous 
Associations, the members giving particular atten- 
tion to the interests of the active chapters and seeing 
to it that they are informed of any good young man 
going to their college from that citv. 

Secretary, FRED CUSCADEN, 

Y. M. C. A. Building, Omaha. 

The Portland Alumni Association was organized Portland 
in i8g6 as the Multonomah Association, and included 
in its membership not only the Phi Psis in Portland, 
but those throughout the State of Oregon. It has 
a membership of twenty-five, representing ten dif- 
ferent chapters. Two meetings a year are held at 
the University Club. The Association was orig- 
inally made up of pioneers, prominent among whom 
is Governor Chamberlain, but in the last couple of 
years a large number of younger Phi Psis have 
located in Oregon, and the Association is growing 
rapidly. 

Secretary, DR. EDMUND J. LABBE, 

Labbe Building, Portland. 

The Seattle Alumni Association was established Seattle 
in 1901. It has a total membership of forty, repre- 
senting twenty-three different chapters. An an- 
nual dinner is held on Founders' Day, at which 
about twenty Phi Psis are usually present. This 
Association is urging the establishment of a chap- 
ter in The State University of Washington, so that 
they may be able to keep their hand in at fraternity 
work. 

Secretary, HORACE A. WILSON, 

42-43 Holler Building, Seattle. 



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Harvard Club The Harvard Club of Phi Kappa Psi, consisting 
of those members of the fraternity in attendance at 
Harvard University, has been in existence for over 
fifteen years, though it did not succeed in obtaining 
official recognition until 1900. Last year the Club 
numbered seventeen, representing nine chapters. 
They hold meetings once a month during the college 
session, which have an average attendance of four- 
teen. The purpose of the Club is to provide the 
members of the fraternity with an association to 
take the place of the loss of their chapter life. 
Secretary, C. W. WADDELL, 
No. 170 Huntington Avenue, 
Boston, Mass. 



CIVIL WAR RECOKD. 



The Civil War record of the fraternity is remark- 
able. At the out-break of the war the total member- 
ship of the fraternity was only 600. Of this num- 
ber 452 enlisted, and of these 100 were killed during 
the war. As the war progressed the fraternity in- 
creased its membership by about 200, 100 of whom 
had seen service in the armes of the North and 
South, so that out of a total membership of 800, 
552 had seen service, divided as follows : U. S. A., 
254; C. S. A., 298. Of these 292 became commis- 
sioned officers including three T^Iajor Generals, 
seven Brigadier Generals, ten Colonels, sixteen 
Lieutenant Colonels, thirty ^lajors, ninety-four Cap- 
tains, eighty-six Lieutenants, thirty-one Surgeons, 
and fifteen Chaplains. Three others became officers 
in the Navy. Among the Generals w^ere General 
Charles A. Ballou, Quartermaster General C. S. A. ; 
General James A. Walker, C. S. A. ; General Harry 
M. Larev, C. S. A., and General William T. Camp- 
bell, U. S. A. 



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Phi Psi's RoU of Honor 

Active, energetic and exemplifying in their hves 
the principles of Phi Kappa Psi, our alumni have 
taken a remarkably prominent part in the life and 
activities of our country, and a large measure of 
success and recognition has rewarded their efforts. 
Our pride in our fraternity is well ji'stified by their 
character and the positions which they have at- 
tained, for in honoring themselves they have hon- 
ored their fraternity. 

No member of Phi Kappa Psi has as yet served Nominee for 
the country as President, but John G. Wooley, of President 
Indiana Alpha, the noted temperance lecturer and 
editor of the New Voice, was the nominee of the 
Prohibition party for the Presidency in the cam- 
paign of 1900. 

In the United States Senate we have been repre- Senators 
sented by such men as Charles Sumner, of Massa- 
chusetts ; Carl Schurz, of Missouri ; John I. Mitchell, 
of Pennsylvania, and Joseph B. Foraker, of Ohio, 
who is now the leading Republican candidate for 
the Presidency in 1908. 

In the House of Representatives no less than Congress 
fifty members have been wearers of the shield of 
Phi Kappa Psi. Their names, with the Chapters 
to which they belong and the States they repre- 
sented in Congress, are here given : 

CONGRESSMEN 

Addison S. McClure, Pa. Alpha; from Ohio. 
George A. Jenks, Pa. Alpha; from Pennsylvania. 
*Gen. H. H. Bingham, Pa. Alpha; from Pennsyl- 
vania. 
Thos. J. Henderson, Pa. Alpha; from Illinois. 
Welty McCollough, Pa. Alpha; from Pennsylva- 
nia. 
*Ernest F. Acheson, Pa. Alpha; from Pennsylvania. 

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Lloyd Lowndes, Pa. Beta; from Maryland. 
*Arthur L. Bates, Pa. Beta; from Pennsylvania. 

Simon P. Wolverton, Pa. Gamma ; from Pennsyl- 
vania. 

Wm. S. Shallenberger, Pa. Gamma; from Pennsyl- 
vania. 

John I. Mitchell, Pa. Gamma; from Pennsylvania. 

Frank E. Beltzhoover, Pa. Epsilon ; from Pennsyl- 
vania. 

Daniel B. Heiner, Pa. Zeta; from Pennsylva.na. 

Seth H. Yocum, Pa. Zeta; from Pennsylvania. 

Joseph M. Belford, Pa. Zeta; from New York. 
*Thos. H. Dale, Pa. Theta; from Pennsylvania. 

Laird H. Barber, Pa. Theta ; from Pennsylvania. 

Phillip H. Dugro, N. Y. Gamma ; from Nev/ York. 

James A. Walker, Va. Alpha; from Virginia. 

Boyd Winchester, Va. Alpha; from Kentucky. 

Henry Page, Va. Alpha; from Maryland. 

Edward L. Martin, Va. Alpha; from Delaw^ire. 

Dudley G. Wooten, Va. Alpha; from Texas. 

Chas. M. Busbee, Va. Gamma ; from No. Carolina. 

D. O. Smart, Va. Delta ; from Missouri. 

Wm. Hayne Perry, S. C. Alpha; from So. Caro- 
lina. 

Hamilton G. Ewart, S. C. Alpha; from No. Caro- 
lina. 
*David E. Finley, S. C. Alpha; from So. Carolina. 
*Geo. S. Legare, S. C. Alpha ; from So. Carolina. 

Gen. John S. Jones, Ohio Alpha ; from Ohio. 

Samuel R. Peters, Ohio Alpha ; from Kansas. 

Gen. John Beatty, Ohio Alpha ; from Ohio. 
*Gen. Jos. Warren Keifer, Ohio Beta ; from Ohio. 
"^ Judge Martin L. Smyser, Ohio Beta ; from Ohio. 
*Newton W. Gilbert, Ohio Delta ; from Indiana. 
*Henry T. Bannon, Ohio Delta; from Ohio. 

Charles L. Henry, Ind. Alpha ; from Indiana. 

Geo. W. Paris, Ind. Alpha ; from Indiana. 
*James E. Watson, Ind. Alpha ; from Indiana. 

Wm. H. Calkins, Ind. Alpha ; from Indiana. 

R. W. Townshend, Ind. Alpha ; from Illinois. 

John R. Williams, Ind. Beta; from Illinois. 



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Allan C. Durborrow, Ind. Beta; from Illinois. 

Judge Chas. S. Hartman, Ind. Gamma; from Mon- 
tana. 
*Herschel M. Hogg, 111. Gamma; from Colorado. 
*James McKinney, 111. Gamma; from Illinois. 

John A. Pickler/ Iowa Alpha ; from So. Dakota. 

James Cooney, Mo. Alpha; from Missouri. 

Hugh H. Price, Wis. Alpha; from Wisconsin. 
*James C. Needham, Gal. Aloha; from California. 

Those marked with * are members of the present 
Congress. 

Among other members of our fraternity who Federal 
have been Federal officials are Gen. J. Warren Officers 
Keifer, Speaker of the House of Representatives; 
rrDr. Frederick D. Power, Chaplain of Congress ; Hon. 
Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior; George A. 
Jenks, Assistant Secretary of the Interior and So- 
h'citor General of the United States; Milton D. 
Purdy, at present Assistant to the Attorney General 
of the United States ; W. S. Shallenberger, at pres- 
ent Assistant Postmaster General ; James S. Young, 
Assistant Attorney General of United States ; Dr. 
Fred H. Wines, the famous prison reform expert 
and Assistant Director of the Census of 1900, and 
Thomas Williamson, Clerk of the Forty-eighth Con- 
gress. 

On the United States Federal bench we haveUnitedStates 
the following Judges : Frank E. Baker, United Judges 
States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Judicial Dis- 
trict; Albert A. Anderson, United States District 
Judge of Indiana; Alfred S. Moore, United States 
Judge Nome District of Alaska; Edward R. Meek, 
United States Judge Northern District of Texas ; 
John H. Burford, United States District Judge of 
Oklahoma ; Channon C. Douglass, ex-United States 
Circuit Judge ; Harry M. Clabaugh, Chief Justice of 
District of Columbia, and the late Judge William 
White, of the Southern District of Ohio, was also 
a member of our fraternitv. 



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United States In the diplomatic service we have had the fol- 
Ministers lowing: Carl Schurz, Minister to Spain; Edward 
P. C. Lewis, Minister to Portugal ; Boyd Winchester, 
^Minister to Switzerland ; Bayliss W. Hanna, Min- 
ister to Argentnie, and Marshall J. Hanger, Minister 
to Barbadoes. 

Consuls While as United States Consuls, the following 

members have been prominent : Wm. H. Backus, 
to Hanover, Germany; John L. Griffiths, at present 
Consul General to Liverpool ; Wm. T. Fee, to Cien- 
fuegos ; Clarence Greathouse, Consul General to 
Yokohama, Japan, and Prime Minister to King of 
Korea; Ed. C. Little, Consul General to Cairo, 
Egypt: Wm. I Shaw, Consul to Baranquilla, U. S. 
of Colombia: H. G. Smith, to Berlin; Thos. F. 
Wallace, to Bogota, U. S. of Colombia, and also 
charge d'Affaires ; James Riley Weaver. Consul 
General to Vienna and Secretary of Legation, Vi- 
enna ; Thos. F. Wilson, Consul to Bahia, Brazil, 
and Metamores, Mexico, and Consul General to 
Montreal, Canada ; Dr. John E. Jones, present U. 
S. Consul to Dalny, Manchuria, and U. Grant 
Smith, now Secretary of Embassy at London. 

Department Among other Government officials we have had 
Officials Sidney G. Brock, for years Chief of the Bureau of 
Statistics, Treasury Department; John ]\L Martin, 
Treasurer of the United States Land Office under 
Cleveland ; Edward O. Leech, late Director of the 
Mint, and John A. Pickler, United States Land 
Commissioner. 

District The following members of our fraternity have 

Attorneys been United States District Attorneys : Howard H. 
Baldridge, for Nebraska; Henry E. Davis, for Dis- 
trict of Columbia ; E. J. Simpkins, for Texas ; 
James S. Young and David B. Heiner, for the 
Western District of Pennsylvania, and Milton D. 
Purdy, for Minnesota. 
Leaving the Federal service for that of the States, 



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we find that Phi Kappa Psi has furnished three Governors 
States with Governors, namely, Joseph B. Foraker, 
of Ohio; Lloyd B. Lowndes, of Maryland, and 
George Earle Chamberlain, of Oregon, who is fa- 
mous as such an honest Democrat that he was re- 
elected at the last campaign, even though Roosevelt 
swept the State. 

Among other State officials, we have Lieutenant Lieutenant 
Governors James A. Walker, of Virsrinia : David B. Governors 
Penn, of Louisiana, and Newton W. Gilbert, of 
Indiana; Secretaries of State Henry S. Walker, of 
Virginia; John Q. Marshall, of South Carolina, and 
Charles A. Miller, of Tennessee ; State TreasurersSecretary's of 
Nathaniel U. Hill, of Indiana, and Henry C. Tipton, State 
of Arkansas, and Samuel B. Raymond, Treasurer of 
Cook County, Chicago, 111. 

Attorney Generals George P. Wilson, of Minne- Attorney 
sota; Harry M. Clabaugh, of Maryland; Robert T. Generals 
Scott, of Virginia; Wm. A. Anderson, of Virginia; 
William A. Barber, of South Carolina; Frank S 
Monnette, of Ohio; Wm. L. Taylor and Bayliss W. 
Hanna, both of Indiana; Ralph W. E. Twitchel, of 
New Mexico; George Earle Chamberlain, of Ore- 
gon; Emmet R. Hicks, of Wisconsin, and Herbert 
S. Hadley, of Missouri. 

Presidents of State Senates Wm. C Sproul, of Preside ots of 
Pennsylvania State Senate ; Henry Clay Tipton, forState Senates 
eight years President of Arkansas State Senate ; Au- 
gustus W. Houston, of Texas State Senate; Oliver 
S. Marshall, of West Virvinia, and Edgar E. Hen- 
dee, of Indiana Senate. 

Speakers of State Legislatures Marshall J. Hanger, Speakers of 
of Virginia who held office for six years ; James Legislaiures 
bimmons, of South Carolina, who was Speaker for 
twelve years ; Johnson N. High, of Kansas ; George 
Thornburgh, of Arkansas; Frank L. Littleton, of 
l^rfll^L^^'^'^y ^' Burkhart, of Idaho, and George 
W. W. Porter, of New Jersey. 



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Stipfcmc Supreme Court Judges — Chief Justice C. P. T. 
Court JudgesMoore, of West Virginia; John W. Phillips, of 
Missouri; Chief Justice Wright Smith, of Arkansas; 
William White and Augustus N. Summers, of Ohio ; 
Henry W. Lightfoot, of Texas ; Wni. H. Calkins, of 
Washington ; James H. Jordan and W. D. Robin- 
son (Appeals), of Indiana; Chief Justice J. H. 
Burford, of Oklahoma ; Chief Justices Joseph C. 
Helm and John J. Campbell, of Colorado ; Francis 
E. Baker, of Indiana ; Henry Page and Samuel D. 
Schmucker, of Maryland; Dorrance Dibell (Ap- 
peals), of Illinois; and John L Mitchell, of the 
Superior Court of Pennsylvania. 

Cotift Clerks of Supreme Courts Thomas R. Kennedy, 

Reporters of Pennsylvania; Odel S. Long, of West Virginia, 
and Clerks Clerk for tv^^enty-five years; E. W. Brown, of Mis- 
sissippi, Clerk for twenty years ; E. C. Reeves, of 
Tennessee, and J. W. Benton, of the Appellate Court 
pf Illinois ; Reporters of Supreme Courts Boyd 
Cumrine, of Pennsylvania ; L. J. Critchfield, of Ohio ; 
Frank M. Dice, of Indiana, and John L. Griffiths, of 
the same State. 

State Com- Railroad Commissioners James W. Rea, of Cali- 
missioners, fornia, and John F. Johnson, of Kentucky; State 
Etc- Superintendent of Schools James Monroe (5reen, of 

New Jersey ; Wm. R. Leigh, of Tennessee ; John W. 
Akers, of Iowa, and James R. Trotter, of West Vir- 
ginia; State Insurance Commissioner Francis A. 
Kurtz, of Maryland, and State Librarians William 
E. Henry, of Indiana, and Geo. O. Shakespeare, of 
Delaware. 

State Our list of State Senators and State legislators is 

Senators Etc^so long that it is impossible to cover it in such a 

small book as this, and, as it would be unfair to 

mention any without mentioning all, their names are 

omitted. 

EDUCATORS. 
College 

Presidents ^^ ^^^ educational world it is extremely doubtful 
whether any college fraternity has ever made a 

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record even approaching that of Phi Kappa Psi. Al- 
most one hundred of the universities and colleges 

of our country have at some time had a member of 

Phi Kappa Psi as their President, while our list of 

college professors is a notable one. 

Among the best known of our college Presidents 

are the following: 

Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton University. 

Edmund J. James, President of Illinois State Uni- 
versity and ex-President of Northwestern Uni- 
versity. 

Bishop C. C. McCabe, Chancellor of the American 
University at Washington. 

William H. Crawford, President of Allegheny Col- 
lege. 

Wm. P. Kane, President of Wabash College. 

Daniel W. Fisher, President of Hanover College. 

Lemuel H. Murlin, President of Baker University. 

George F. Bovard, President of University of South- 
ern California. 

Wm. P. Aylesworth, President of Cotner University. 

Barton O. Aylesworth, ex-President of Drake Uni- 
versity, now President of Colorado State Col- 
lege. 

Joseph E. Stubbs, President of Nevada State Uni- 
versity, and for years President of Baldwin 
University. 

John McL. McBryde, ex-President of Universities of 
Tennessee and South Carolina, and now Presi- 
dent Virginia Polytechnic. 

Frank B. Gault, President of University of Idaho 
and Whitworth College. 

Charles C. Bragdon, President of Lasell College. 

Williarn M. Thornton, for years Chairman of the 
University of Virginia. 

William E. Boggs, Chancellor of the University of 
Georgia. 

William C. Spangler, Chancellor of the University 
of Kansas. 

Robert Lowrey, Chancellor of Bucknell University. 

James Eldon, President of Pennsylvania State Nor- 
mal College. 

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Joseph Smith, President of Monongahela College. 

George M. Phillips. President of Pennsylvania State 
Normal College. 

William L. Knight. President of Carthage College. 

T. A, McCurdy, President of MacAlester College. 

Thomas W. Dosh, President of Roanoke College. 

Theo. L. Seip. President of iMnhlenberg Collecre. 

Hervey W. McKnight, President of Pennsylvania 
College. 

Col. Alexander F. Fleet, President of Culver ]\Iili- 
tary College. 

Wm. R. Atkinson, President of So. Carolina Col- 
lege for Women. 

Wm. D. Godman, President of Baldwin University, 
and New Orleans University. 

Fletcher B. Cherington, President Paget Sound 
University. 

John B. Robinson. President of Ft. Wayne College, 
and W^illoughby College. 

Wm. H. Savage, President of Mt. Sterlins: College. 

Isaac N. Failor, President of New Orleans Uni- 
versity. 

A. B. Riker, President of IMt. Union Collecre. 

Samuel A. Ort, President of Wittenberg Collbege. 

John W. Simpson, President of IMarietta Colleore. 

F. D. Bovard, President of University of Southern 
California. 

Joshua C. Chilton, President of Texas State Col- 
lege. 

Edwin A. Andrews, President of Williamette Uni- 
versity. 

Milton C. Springer, President of Hedding College. 

Fdward L. Parks, President of Simpson Collesfe. 

Wm. H. H. Adams, President of Illinois Wesleyan 
University. 

Homer R. Seerley, President of Iowa State Normal 
College. 

James E. Harlan, President of Cornell College. 

John J. Martin, President of University of the 
Pacific. 

Charlees W. Deane, President of Indiana State Nor- 
mal. 



Joseph H. Apple, President of Woman's College of 
Maryland. 

Thomas D. Ewing, President of Parsons College. 

James M. Green, President of N. J. State Normal 
College. 

Francis S. Hoyt, President of Williamette Univer- 
sity. 

Lee Davis Lodge, President of Limestone College. 

Samuel Albert Martin, President of Pennsylvania 
College and ex-President Wilson College. 

Samuel B. Barnitz, President of Midland Coll ege. 

David J. Meese, President of Heidelberg College. 

Late Wm. X. Ninde, President of Garrett Biblical 
Institute. 

Stephen Phelps, President of Coe College. 

Thaddeus C. Reade, President of Taylor University. 

John A. Simpson, President of Baker University. 

Daniel L. Tressler, President of Carthage College. 

William G. Ward, President of Spokane College. 

Thomas N. Williams, President of Washington 
College. 

William G. Williams, President of Ohio Wesleyan 
University. 

L. W. Ong, President of Richmond College. 

James C. Mackensie, President of Jacob Tome In- 
stitute. 

Alonzo D. Chesterman, President of Marshall Col- 
lege. 

William H. Lacy, President of Anglo-Chinese Col- 
lege, Foochow. 

Edgar Fahs Smith, Vice and Acting Provost Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania. 

Among other college officials are Josiah Harman, Vice-Presi- 
Dean of the college faculty of the University of dents and 
Pennsylvania ; Hervey B. Knight, Vice-President of Deans 
Whitworth College ; Edwin Post, Vice-President of 
DePauw University; John Marshall, Dean of the 
Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania ; 
Frank O. Marvin, Dean of the School of Engineer- 
ing of Kansas University ; late William L. Murfee, 
Dean of Law in the University of Colorado ; Josiah 

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H. Penniman, Dean of the college faculty of the 
University of Pennsylvania, and D. M. Hammack, 
Dean of Law, Southern California. 

Noted Our college professors include John Wm. White, 

Educators o^ Harvard, the author of the famous textbooks on 
Latin and Greek; Amos E. Dolbear, of Tufts Col- 
lege, one of the original inventors of the telephone 
and the greatest living physicist. Among mathe- 
maticians we have Prof. William M. Thornton, of 
the University of Virginia, one of the leading mathe- 
maticians of the world ; George B. Merriman, of 
Rutgers, and David Garber, of Muhlenberg, who 
is also noted as an astronomer. Prof. William J. 
Alexander, of the University of Toronto, is one of 
the first English scholars of America; while other 
prominent professors are William E. Parsons, of 
Harvard and Tokio College ; George F. James, the 
famous sociologist of the University of Minnesota; 
Collins Denny, in the chair of philosophy at Van- 
derbilt; Oscar L. Triggs, who so long held the chair 
of English at the University of Chicago ; Paul J. 
Dashiell, the famous mathematician and football 
coach of the United States Naval Academy ; Dr. 
O. M. Stewart, the noted physicist of the University 
of Missouri ; Dr. Edwin Post, of DePauw, one of 
the greatest Latin scholars in America ; Wright 
Eckersley, the noted biologist of the University of 
California; James M, Morgan, of Dickinson Col- 
lege; Benj. T. Blanpied, the famous chemist of 
Dartmouth College ; William G. Raymond, the noted 
engineer of the University of California ; Tosui Ima- 
dati, of the Imperial University of Japan, and Ste- 
phen N. Fellows, of Iowa University. 

Historians In history and political economy we have a most 
and Political remarkable array, for it is a fact that the leading 
Economists thinkers and writers along these lines in our country 
to-day are members of Phi Kappa Psi. First in 
this list should be placed Woodrow Wilson, who is 
probably the leading historian in America to-day, 
while no less eminent, but w^orking along slightly 

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different lines, are Prof. Edmund J. James and Dr. 
E. R. L. Gould, the famous sociologist and labor ex- 
pert. Among others almost equally well known are 
Profs. Frank W. Blackmar and Frank H. H odder, 
the noted political economists of the University of 
Kansas ; Westel W. Willoughby, historian, of Johns 
Hopkins University ; William P. Trent, historian, of 
Columbia ; Frank Fetter, the political economist of 
Leland Stanford and Cornell Universities ; Charles 
D. Haskins, of Harvard ; Robert D. Sheppard, of 
Northwestern ; Henry Kirks White, historian, of the 
University of Missouri ; Frederick J. Turner, of 
Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins ; Robert M. Davis, of 
the University of South Carolina ; Richard H. Dab- 
ney and Charles W. Kent, historians, of the Uni- 
versity of Virginia ; Col. James Riley Weaver, the 
political economist of DePauw ; Fred A. Cleveland, 
of the Wharton School of Finance and the Univer- 
sity of the City of New York; Guy M. Walker, of 
New^ York, v^hose works on transportation and 
finance have attracted wide attention, and George 
B. Lockwood, the authority on communistic experi- 
ments. 

COLLEGE PROFESSORS. 

Professors Edgar F. Smith, Samuel P. Sadtler, 
John Q. Marshall, Felix E. Schelling, Allen J. 
Smith, Geo. A. Koenig, Otis H. Kendall and William 
D. Marks, of the University of Pennsylvania ; Pro- 
fessors Robert Baird, Charles W. Pearson, Charles 
M. Stuart, Charles Horswell, George H. Horswell 
and H. McKelly, of the Northw^estern University; 
Professors Joseph V. Denney, George W. McCord 
and Alexander Nelson, of Ohio State University; 
Professors Carl E. Eggert and Lew^is A. Rhoades, 
of the University of Illinois ; Professors Charles B. 
Thwing, William M. Smallwood, Frederick W. Re- 
vels and Eugene W. Manning, of Syracuse Univer- 
sity; Professors Fred W. Truscott and Woodville 
Latham, of the University of W. Virginia ; Profes- 
sors Harris J. Ryan and George C. Cook, of Leland 
Stanford; Professors Ernest G. Merrett and James 

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McMahon, of Cornell University; Professors Frank 
O. Marvin, Miles W. Sterling, Charles F. iMarvin, 
James S. Gleed, Charles G. Dunlap and Archibald 
Hogg, of the Universitv of Kansas ; Professors 
Theodore L. Neff, David " J- Lingle, Adolph O. Eha- 
son, Frederick L. Anderson, Theodore G. Soares 
and Clark B. Whittaker, of the University of Chi- 
cago; Professors Marion D. Larned, Wyatt M. Ran- 
dell, James W. Bright and James B. Wright, of 
Johns Hopkins University ; Professors James H. 
Osborne and Arthur B. Milford, of Wabash Col- 
lege ; Professors Karl F. A. Eggert and Rush 
Emor\^, of Iowa University ; Professor John S. Da- 
vis, of University of Virginia ; Dr. E. C. Elliot and 
J. E. Olson, of Wisconsin University ; Professor 
Henry Fay, of Mass. Institute of Technology ; Pro- 
fessor Edgar M. Green, of Lafayette ; Professors 
Thomas G. Alford and James C. Kelsey, of Purdue, 
and Professors James K. Beck and Walter R. 
Houghton, of Indiana University ; Professors Will- 
iam G. Williams, Edward T. Nelson, William O. 
Semans and John v^T. Short, of Ohio Wesleyan 
University; Professors William A. Bartol, William 
G. Owen, Joseph M. Wolfe, Francis V. Tustin and 
William T. Grier, of Bucknell University ; Profes- 
sors Benj. F. Hoyt and John Poucher, of DePauw 
University ; Professors Richard M. Venable, James 
Addison Quarles and Henry M. Estill, of Wash- 
ington and Lee University; Professors William H. 
Jordan, Edward Merrick, Hamline H. Freer, of 
Cornell College; Professors William R. Vance, 
Howard L. Hodgkins and Charles L. Richardson, of 
Washington University; Professors Richard H. 
Tebbs and James M. Boyd, of Louisiana State Uni- 
versity; Professors William A. Echels and William 
B. Langsdorf, of Miami; Professors Benjamin F, 
Prince and Alvin F. Linn, of W^ittenberg ; Profes- 
sors Emory M. Wood. William J. Graham and A. E. 
Colgrove, of Baker University ; Professors William 
E. Golden and Frank W. Chandler, of Brooklyn 
Polytechnic; Professor Walter McN. Miller, of Ne- 



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vada University; Professor Ashley D. Hurt, of Tu- 
lane; Professor John Hall, of William and Mary's 
College; Professor Charles W. Hodell, of the 
Woman's College of Baltimore; Professor G. W. 
Stewart, of the University of North Dakota; Prof. 
Morton J. Elrod, of Washington University; Prof. 
Addison Hogue, of the University of Mississippi; 
Prof. Emmet A. Drake, of the Missouri School of 
Mines; Prof. Arthur S. Mackensie, of Bryn Mawr, 
and Prof. George L. Plendrickson, ,of Colaradjo 
State College; Prof. Charles Harris, of Oberlin ; 
Prof. Enoch H. Vickers, of Tokio, Japan ; Prof. 
William Frear, of Pennsylvania State College ; Prof. 
Charles C. Henshen, of Girard College ; Prof. Fran- 
cis W. Hanawalt, of Albion; Prof. W. S. Hall, of 
Haverford ; Prof. Newell S. Albright, of the Uni- 
versity of Denver; Prof. Robert L. Preston, of the 
Central University of Kentucky ; Prof. Royal B. 
Smythey, of Randolph-Macon ; Ralph Wright, of 
Washington and Jefferson College, and F. Homer 
Curtis, of Texas. 

In addition to those who have followed educa- Scientists 
tional lines, many of our members have become fa- 
mous in purely scientific lines. Chief among these 
are the late John G. Owen, the great archaeologist of 
Harvard University, famous for his discoveries in 
Mexico and Central America ; Daniel T. McDougal, 
the greatest botanist yet produced in America, and 
recently appointed head of the botanical department 
of the Carnegie Institute, lately from the Uni- 
versity of Minnesota ; George P. Grimsley and 
Charles A. White, the noted geologists and palaeon- 
tologists ; John T. Short, well known for his research 
in Indian antiquities ; George A. Koenig, the famous 
minerologist of Pennsylvania University; Oliver L. 
Fassig, the meteorologist ; the late Sidney H. Short, 
who was one of the most remarkable electricians this 
country has ever produced, and who was at the time 
of his death the manager of all the Westinghouse 
interests in Great Britain ; Hugo Kahl, the great 
entomologist, and Samuel G. Dixon, the bacterolo- 

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Riley, 
Lowrey 

Burdette, 

Field, Viele. 

Demille. 



Editors 



gist; Giistav A. Liebig, the electrician of Johns Hop- 
kins University, and Dr. Frederick W. Hodge, the 
famous ethnologist of the Smithsonian Institution; 
Dr. Howard L. Hodgkins, of the Corcoran Scientific 
Institute ; Robert Somerville, engineer of the Mis- 
sissippi River Commission ; Marshall McDonald, of 
the United States Fish Commission ; Dr. Frank W. 
Clarke, the noted chemist and geologist; Aaron N. 
Skinner, astronomer of the United States Naval 
Observatory, and Dr. Eugene Caldwell, of New 
York, the greatest X-ray expert in America. 

LITERATURE. 

In addition to the vast volume of literature pro- 
duced by our historians, political economists and sci- 
entists, a number of our members have excelled in 
more popular lines, and we are proud to have in our 
fraternity the greatest of living poets, James Whit- 
comb Riley, while another of our members, pre- 
eminent in his line, was Robert Low^y, the great 
hymnologist, whose songs have been sung in every 
clime and in almost every tongue. Then, too, wq 
have Robert J. Burdette, the apostle of sense and 
nonsense; Theodore Tilton and the late Henry C. 
DeMille, author and playw^right ; Frank Moore Colby, 
the editor of the Bookman and the International 
Encyclopedia ' Roswell M. Field, the writer of 
charming books and essays, and Herman Knicker- 
bocker Viele, the author of "The Last of the Knick- 
erbockers," "The House of Silence," etc 

In the editorial w^crld w^e have Frank Chapin Bray, 
editor of the Chantanquan; Harlan P. Hall, of the 
St. Paul Daily Nezvs; George W. Dunn, of the Co- 
lumbus Citizen; the late Lewis D. Hays, of the In- 
dianapolis Journal; J. H. Neff, of the Kansas City 
Daily Telegram; Nathaniel C. Wright, managing 
editor of the Cleveland (Ohio) Leader; Gerhart C. 
Mars, of the Great Round World; Melvin A. Hoyt, 
of the Milwaukee Daily News • Floyd W. Triggs, the 
cartoonist of Chicago ; James C. Bergstresser, editor 



of the Insurance World; Peyton Brown, of the Aus- 
ten (Texas) Statesman; Alvin E. Findley, of the 
Iron Age (N. Y.) ; the late Charles H. Gere, of the 
Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln, Neb.) ; Frank M. 
Higgins, managing editor of the Cincinnati Commer- 
cial; Thomas J. Guard, editor of the Sunday Times 
(N. Y.) ; Arthur D. Hosterman, publisher of the 
Springfield Times; George F. James, editor of the 
University Extension Magazine; the late George C. 
Smith, editor of the St. Joseph (Mo.) Daily Herald; 
Josiah Miller, famous in his day as the editor of the 
Kansas Free State; John G. Wooley, editor of The 
Nezv Voice; Fred Johnson, editor of the National 
Live Stock Journal, Denver; E. Robb Zaring, as- 
sistant editor of the Western Christian Advocate 
(Cincinnati) ; George Smart, editor of the Iron Trade 
Reviezv (Cleveland) ; Charles J. Downey, editor of 
the Daily Mining Record (Denver) ; Donald H. 
Clingan, editor of the Tucson (N. Mex.) Post; Jay 
O. Hayes, of San Jose, Cal. ; Joseph Bryan, editor 
of the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, and Chas. 
S. Gleed, of the Kansas City Journal 

MEDICINE. 

Considering the principles upon which our fra- Doctors 
ternity were founded, it is not surprising to find so 
many of our members prominent in the medical pro- 
fession and leaders in its research and investigation. 
The first to deserve mention is the late Edward Oram 
Shakespeare, of Philadelphia, the greatest expert on 
cholera in the country, while next to him should be. 
mentioned the late Jesse ^N. Lazear, who recently 
gave his life, a willing sacrifice to the world of 
science, in order to demonstrate that the yellow fever 
germ was spread by mosquitoes. Among the many 
others engaged in this field are found the following : 
Dr. John F. Dillon, Superintendent of the United 
States Marine Hospital at San Francisco ; Dr. George 
G. Davis, of the Royal College of Surgeons of Great 
Britain ; Dr. Samuel J. Fort, alienist, of the Medical 
College of Maryland; Dr. John W. McMillen, neu- 

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rologist, Superintendent of the Ohio State Hospital 
for the Insane ; Dr. Clark Mosher, of Kansas City, 
the famous obstetrician ; Thomas E. Holland, of Hot 
Springs, Arkansas; Archibald Church, neurologist, of 
the Illinois Hospital for the Insane ; Eugene Grove 
Carpenter, Superintendent of the Ohio State Hos- 
pital ; William M. Edwards, alienist, Superintendent 
of the Michigan Hospital for the Insane ; Seneca 
Egbert, Randolph Faries, William C. Posey and Jo- 
seph Sailer, of the University of Pennsylvania ; Dr. 
Samuel Gibson Dixon, of Philadelphia, Health Com- 
missioner of Pennsylvania ; Charles W. Richardson 
and Leon R. Friedrich, of Washington, D. C ; Win- 
held S. Hall, of Chicago, Dean of the medical fac- 
ulty ; Dr. Mong Shaw Loo, physician to the King of 
Burma; Robert Hall White, Phillip G. Wales, Henry 
S. Harris and John R. Tackett, of the United States 
Army, Dr. Tackett being famous as the yellow fever 
expert, and also as the Superintendent of the Mis- 
sissippi Hospital for the Insane ; Samuel E. Smith, 
Superintendent of the Indiana Hospital for the In- 
sane at Richmond ; Henry M. Thomas, neurologist, of 
John Hopkins University ; Edwin W. IMitchell, of 
Cincinnati ; Oscar T. Hoffman, surgeon, of the Union 
Pacific, at Omaha, Neb. ; Dr. Richard T. Bang, of 
New York; Dr. R. Cheatham, of Nashville; Dr. 
WilHam S. Baer, of Johns Hopkins University; Ed- 
mund J. Labbe, of Portland, Ore., and Dr. Lewis 
Tieste, of Brooklyn. 

CHURCH. 

Ministers of Prominent among church men we have Dr. A. A. 
the Gospel Willits, vv^ho has preached the gospel of "Sunshine" 
all over the country, and Dr. R. C. Cave, of St 
Louis. In the Presbyterian Church there is Dr 
Samuel J. Nichols, of St. Louis ; Dr. Charles Andrew 
Dickey, of Philadelphia, and Dr. R. F. Coyle, of 
Oakland and Denver, all ex-Moderators of the Gen- 
eral Assembly; Dr. William J. Darbey, manager of 
the publishing house of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church ; Dr. M. H. Houston, Secretary of the Board 
of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church 

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South ; Dr. Thomas A. Nelson, of Brooklyn, and 
Dr. Wm. C. Alexander, of Washington, D. C 

In the Protestant Episcopal Church we have the 
Right Rev. Bishop David H. Greer, of New York; 
Right Rev. James Addison Ingle, of Hankow, China ; 
Drs. Ernest M. Sirees and Samuel D. McConnell, of 
New York; Dr. Rob Roy McC McN. Converse, of 
Rochester ; Dr. Frank M. Gregg, of Chicago, and Dr. 
Henry T. Scudder, of Brooklyn. 

In the Methodist Church we have the famous 
Bishop Chaplain C. McCabe ; Bishop John M. Wal- 
den, and the late Bishop William X. Ninde; Dr. 
Stephen J. Herben, editor of the Epzuorth Herald; 
Drs. Francis S. Hoyt and Edwin House, editors of 
the Western Christian Advocate ' Dr. Freeman D. 
Bovard, of San Francisco, editor of the Pacific Ad- 
vocate; Dr. Lewis E. Curts, of the Methodist Book 
Concern ; Dr. Edwin A. Schell, Secretary of the 
Epworth League, and one of the most eloquent men 
in the American Church ; Dr. Lucien Clark, Pastor 
of the Metropolitan Church at Washington ; Dr. 
Camden M. Coburn, Dr. Jacob E. Price, of New 
York ; Dr. J. P. Brushingham, of Chicago ; Dr. Sa- 
lem Town, of Indiana, and Dr. Nathan A. Axtel. 

In the Baptist Church we have Dr. A. J. Rowland, 
editor of the Baptist Reviezv; Dr. A. L. Moore, of 
New York; Dr. Joseph E. Sagebeer, and the late 
Robert Lowrey. 

In the Lutheran Church we have Dr. George F. 
Speiker, editor of the Lutheran Review; Dr. Luther 
A. Gotwald, the Lutheran historian : Dr. Edward T. 
Horn, of Reading, Pa. ; Rev. Frederick W. Gotwald, 
Secretary of the Lutheran Educational Board, and 
Dr. J. B. Remensnvder, of New York. 

In the Reformed Church we have Dr. Samuel R. 
Bridenbaugh, of Reading, Pa., and Dr. Rufus W. 
Miller. 

Many of our members have become missionaries Missionaries 
and have earned fame as well as immortality by 
their labors in foreign lands. Prominent among 
these are Dr. Henry Mansell and Dr. John N. Fore- 



man, of India ; Dr. Thomas F. Wallace, of Mexico, 
and Drs. Wilbur F. Walker, of Peking; W. N. 
Brewster, of Hinghua, and Stephen A. Hunter, of 
Shantung, China, the last named being the translator 
of the British Pharmocopia into Chinese. 

PUBLIC AFFAIRS. 

Actors A few of our members have chosen a different 

platform on which to use their talents and have found 
an honorable place upon the stage. First among 
these is Clay Clement, who has charmed thousands 
with his depiction of the *'New Dominion," while 
among the others are found those excellent char- 
acter actors, George D. Fawcett, Erroll Dunbar and 
Walter H. Doughtery, who has created such a sen- 
sation during the last year in England. 

Mayors The following are a few of the many who have 
become Mayors of their home cities : Thomas S. 
Sullivan, of Indianapolis ; Charles H. Gere, of Lin- 
coln, Neb. ; E. R. L. Gould, City Chamberlain of 
New York; Robert M. McLane, o'f Baltimore, Md. ; 
C. W. Breyfogle, of San Jose, Cal. ; Jay H. Neff, of 
Kansas City, Mo., and Perley M. Cartmell, of 
Springfield, Ohio. 

Army and Many have given their lives to their country, and 
Navy are serving in the Army and Navy, prominent among 
whom are Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, U. S. A., President 
of the War College; Gen. Robert H. Hall, U. S. A., 
retired; Gen. William M. Black, U. S. A., Chief En- 
gineer with the Army in Porto Rico ; Col, Clinton 
B. Seers, Engineer, U. S. A. ; Col. John A. Hull, 
U. S. A., Judge Advocate General ; Col. J. F. Chase, 
Chief Engineer of Manila, Philippine Islands ; Capt. 
Charles D. Rhoades, member of the General Staff, 
and winner of the Army prize for the best sugges- 
tions in 1905 ; Capt. James A. Cole, U. S. A. ; Capt. 
Fred Buchan, U. S. A. ; Lieut. John B. Greenway, 
of Roosevelt's Rough Riders ; and Commander Lee 
Holcombe, David Watson Taylor, the famous bat- 
tleship contsructor, and Chaplain Livingston Bayard, 
of the U. S. Navy. 

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LAWYERS. 

The Law has been a favorite profession among Attorneys 
our members, and in it we find many of our most 
famous brothers. Foremost among these is S. C. T. 
Dodd, the man whose brain conceived and organized 
the Standard Oil Company and who, as its soHcitor 
general, has for years successfully defended that giant 
corporation from all attacks. Others are Charles J. 
Hughes, of Denver, undoubtedly the greatest mining 
lawyer in the United States, and David T. Watson, 
of Pittsburg, retained by the City of Chicago, as 
counsel in its litigation against the street railway in- 
terests. So many have become distinguished in this 
line that it is possible to name but a few, such as 
George D. Penniman, General Counsel of the B. & 
O. Railway; Judge James W. McKinley, of Los 
Angeles, Counsel of the Southern Pacific ; Judge 
Franklin Ferris, of St. Louis, General Counsel to the 
Louisiana Exposition ; James L. Norris, the famous 
patent attorney of Washington ; the late E. W. Tol- 
erton, of Toledo, Ohio, attorney for the Pennsvlvania 
Ry ; the late Judge A. A. Winters, of Dayton, famous 
as the originator of the modern Building & Loan As- 
sociation system ; Col. Samuel Sparks, of Warrens- 
burg, Mo., whose ability and fearlessness put a State's 
Supreme Court into contempt; Hiram C. Wariner, 
of Memphis ; John Overton Lea, and Jordan Stokes, 
of Nashville ; Edwin B. Hay, of Washington ; Gray 
Carroll, of Little Rock ; M. J. Manning, of Carrolton, 
Ark. ; D. M. Hamunack, of Los Angeles ; Charles L. 
Thompson, and Frank L. Littleton, of Indianapolis ; 
John Frankenheimer, Ira Leo Bamberger, and Walter 
L. McCorkle, of New York ; Judges Simpson S. Ford, 
and Thos. K. Dissette, of Cleveland, Ohio ; Abram E. 
Swisher, Counsel for the R. I. & P. Ry. ; Judge 
Nathan W. Macey, of Harlan, la. ; Lincoln M. Coy, 
and Wirt E. Humphries, of Chicago: Richard M. 
Venable, and Allan McLane, of Baltimore ; E. R 
Anderson, of Boston ; Judge E. S. Torrance, of San 
Diego; Judges A. H. DeFrance, of Golden, Colo., 

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and B. F. Harrington, of Denver ; Judge INIartin G. 
Herman, of Lewisburg, Pa. ; Judge William F. 
Stevens, of Mississippi ; Judge M. L. Buchwalter, of 
Cincinnati ; Judges William P. Gardiner and H. A. 
Barclay, of Los Angeles ; Judge P. H. Dugro, of 
New York; Judge H. C. Allen, of Indianapolis; 
Judge Merle N. A. Walker, of Indianapolis ; Judge 
Lewis L. Dennett, of Los Angeles; Judges Edmund 
W. Burke, and Luther M. Dearborn, of Chicago ; 
Judges James M. Young and Wm. McClung, of Pitts- 
burg, Pa. ; Judge H. D. Dickinson, of Minneapolis ; 
Judge E. B. Dillon, of Columbus ; Judge Frank C. 
Sebree, of Kansas Citv ; Hon. Cyrus Crane, attorney 
for the A. T. & S. F. 'Railway, and Burton W. Wil- 
son, of Mexico City. 

Business Among our members are to be found a great many 
prominent business men, of whom the following de- 
serve mention : George IMcNulty Laughlin, of the 
Jones & Laughlin Iron Company, Pittsburg; John J. 
Young, President of the Bolton Steel & Iron Com- 
pany, Canton, Ohio ; Francis A. Arter, of the Stand- 
ard Oil Company, Cleveland ; Col. Thomas Chamber- 
lain, of Philadelphia, Secretary of the Teutonia Fire 
Ins. Company ; Col. Wm. H. Harrison, of Philadel- 
phia, President of the Creswell Iron Works ; Col. 
Dudley Evans, New York, President of the Wells 
Fargo Express Company; Conway W. Hillman, of 
Chicago, Treasurer of the Northern Pacific Express 
Company ; William C. Sproul, of Chester, Pa., Presi- 
dent of the Seaboard Steel Company and Chester 
Shipbuilding Company; E. R. L. Gould, Director of 
the U. S. Life Ins. Company ; Arthur Hartwell, of 
Pittsburg, Chief Sales ]\Ianager of the z\merican 
Steel & Wire Company; Charles S. Pow^ell, of New 
York, General Eastern Agent for the Westinghouse 
Electric Company; Thomas D. Sheerin, of the Home 
Telephone Company, Indianapolis ; R. S. Tennant, 
Coal Operator, of Terre Haute ; John E, Keene, of 
Peoria, Illinois ; John W. Springer, of Denver, Presi- 
dent of the Western Cattle Growers' Ass'n ; James 



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p. Goodrich, owner of oil wells, banks, and Chair- 
man of Rep. State Central Committee of Indiana; 
the brothers, Philip K. and Lawrence Van Buskirk, 
of Indiana, interested in limestone and politics ; 
George W. Dixon, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Dixon Transfer Company, Chicago; Benj. F. Elbert, 
Capitalist of Des Moines, la. ; Hugh H. Price, the 
Lumber King of Wisconsin ; Charles M. Wales, of 
the Cleveland Forge & Iron Company; Daniel H. 
Blake, Manager for Japan of the American Trading 
Company; E. Lawrence Fell, of Philadelphia, Presi- 
dent of the Franklin Publishing Company; Clement 
A. Griscom, of the International Navigation Com- 
pany; R. N. Seaver, President of the Equitable Aid 
Union ; Morris L. Clothier, of Strawbridge & 
Clothier, Philadelphia; Clement M. Biddle, of the 
Carnegie Steel Company ; W. A. Hover, the whole- 
sale druggist of Denver ; William H. Sudduth, the 
miller, of Minneapolis, and George R. Weeks, of San 
Francisco ; William S. Hannah, President of the 
Kansas City Live Stock Exchange; Hal E. Payne, 
President of the American Typev/riter Company, 
New York ; Charles A. Geiger, President of the 
Springfield (O.) Machine Company, and William 
A. Thatcher, Vice-President and General Manager 
of the Revolving Door Company, New York ; Oliver 
Shiras, Vice-President of the Wire and Telephone 
Co., of Rome, N. Y., and Harry Whitcomb, of In- 
diana. 

Many of the most prominent bankers of the United Bankets 
States belong to our fraternity, and some of them 
have an international reputation, for there are no 
more honored names in the world of finance than 
those of Isaac N. Seligman and Jefferson Seligman, 
of the firm of Seligman Brothers in New York City, 
who were designated by the United States Govern- 
ment as its fiscal agents in the East during the occu- 
pancy of the Philippines and the expedition into 
China. Among other prominent bankers we have 
N. R. Steadman, President of the Melbourne Bank, 
Melbourne, Australia; Charles B. Ketcham, Fred C. 

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Hicks, and Emil Tauchert, members of the New York 
Stock Exchange; Charles H. Imhoff, of Harriman & 
Company, N. Y. ; Edward O. Leech, late Vice-Presi- 
dent of the National Bank of Commerce, N. Y. ; 
Winthrop E. Scarritt, President of the Common- 
wealth Trust Company, N. Y. ; E. R. L. Gould, Presi- 
dent of the 34th Street National Bank, New York; 
Col. David j\Ic. Armor, President of the Fifth Ave- 
nue Bank, Pittsburg, Pa. ; Thomas W. Pomeroy, 
Vice-President of the Equitable Trust Company, of 
Pittsburg; Lloyd Lownes, late President of the Sec- 
ond National Bank of Cumberland, Md. ; Thomas K. 
Worthington, President of the Maryland Title Ins. 
& Trust Company, Maryland ; Alexander Brown, of 
Baltimore; Hamilton M. Brown, of Alexander Brown 
& Company, Baltimore ; Allan McLane, banker and 
lawyer of Baltimore ; William H. Bosley, of Balti- 
more ; Joseph H. Fall, Vice-President of the Fourth 
National Bank, of Nashville, Tenn. ; E. P. Passmore, 
Cashier of the Franklin National Bank, Philadelphia; 
General John Beatty, President of the Citizens' Sav- 
ings Bank at Columbus, Ohio ; W. A. Hover, Presi- 
dent of the U. S. National Bank, Denver; John W. 
Springer, Vice-President of the Continental Trust 
Company, Denver ; W. E. Sweet, of Denver ; Charles 
K. Mcintosh, Vice-President of the San Francisco 
National Bank ; Harry Gray, Vice-President of the 
Southwest National Bank, and Lloyd Elliot, Vice- 
President of the MerchantsTrust Company, Los 
Angeles; George E. Starr, Banker and Capitalist, of 
San Francisco ;Hiram F. Norcross, of the California 
National Bank, San Diego ; D. O. Smart, of Kansas 
City; R. N. Allen, of Chanute, Kansas; C. F. M. 
Niles, President of the Security Trust Company, To- 
ledo, Ohio ; Oscar T. Martin, President of the First 
National Bank, Springfield, Ohio ; Dr. S. S. Carter, 
President of the First National Bank, Jackson, 
Miss. ; Andrew J. Kauffman, President of the Cen- 
tral National Bank, Columbia, Pa. ; Nathaniel U. 
Hill, President of the First National Bank, Bloom- 
ington, Ind. ; Horace Dresser of the Commonwealth 
Trust Company, Buffalo ; Lovell & Abram E. 

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Swisher, of Iowa City; Lewis E. Walker, of Beatrice, 
Nebraska ; F. A. Stocks, of Blue Rapids, and Charles 
L. Davidson, of Witchita, Kansas ; Fred. G, Bar- 
rows, of Ferens Falls, Minnesota; George Bramwell 
Baker, of Baker, Aylincr & Company, Boston, and 
George D. Baker, of Moore, Baker & Company, Bos- 
ton ; Thomas R. Jones, of Washington, D. C. ; W. 
L. Whipple, Cashier of the Stock Growers' National 
bank at Cheyenne; F. R. Phillips, Vice-President of 
the Guarantee Title & Trust Company, of Pittsburg, 
Pa. ; Henry J. Bowdoin, of Baltimore, and Charles 
S. Gleed, Vice-President Pioneer Trust Co., of Ken- 
"as City. 

The following are some of our members who a re Railroad Men 
prominent as railroad officials : George T. Nicholson, 
of Chicago, Vice-President and General Passenger 
Agent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Sys- 
tem, Charles S. Gleed, Director and General Counsel 
of the same system; Theodore P. Shonts, President 
of the Toledo, St. Louis & Western Ry. ; William 
M. Green, Vice-President and General Manager of 
the B. & O. S. W. Ry. ; Col. Jere T. Baxter, Presi- 
dent Tennessee Central Ry., and the Memphis & 
Charleston Ry. ; William H. Bosley, President of the 
Suffolk & Carolina R. R. ; Richard Gentry, General 
Manager of the Pittsburg & Gulf Ry. ; Charles L. 
Henry, President of the Indianapolis & Cincinnati 
Ry.; Guy M. Walker, of New York, Railroad Ex- 
pert and Reorganizer; William C. Wilson, Chief 
Claim Attorney of the D. L. & W. Ry., and Presi- 
dent of the Railway Claim Agents' Ass'n ; Joseph 
Bryan, President of the Richmond & Danville Ry. ; 
John L. Bushnell, President Springfield, Piqua & 
Troy Ry. ; Charles W. Coles, President of the Cum- 
berland River Ry. ; Louis G. Haass, Assistant Gen- 
eral Manager of the B. & O. Ry. ; Willis S. Jones, 
Chief Engineer of the Northern Pacific, Chicago ; 
Donald Allen, Superintendent and Chief Engineer 
of the L. & N. Ry. ; Alexander M. Atcheson, Chief 
Engineer of the M. K. & T. Ry. ; Thomas H. John- 



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son, Engineer of the Pennsylvania Ry. ; Lewis D. 
Aylett, Treasurer of the Geo. Pacific R. R., and 
Bryon B. Carter, Consulting Engineer, of Chicago, 
E. M. Pomeroy, of San Francisco, Western Agent 
of the Pennsylvania Railroad ; Oscar T. Martin, 
President of the Springfield (O.) Railway and Light 
Co., and Fred. H. Fitch, President of the Pittsburg 
(Kan.) Railway and Light Co. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Gough Rea Among our prominent members whom it has been 
Et AI difficult to place in the above lists are the late Gen- 
eral John P. Rea, Commander-in-Chief of the G. 
A. R. ; Winthrop E. Scarntt, President of the Auto- 
mobile Club of America; Rossiter G. Cole, President 
of the Music Teachers' National Association ; Pro- 
fessor Newton M. Anderson, Principal of the Uni- 
versity School at Cleveland, Ohio; Prof. Charles D. 
Wood, Principal of the High School at Pittsburg, 
Pa. ; William M. Friesner, Superintendent of Schools 
at Los Angeles, California ; Josephus W. Layne, for 
twxnty years Superintendent of Schools at Evans- 
ville, Lidiana ; C. L. Van Cleve, Superintendent 
of Schools at Troy and Mansfield, Ohio ; Au- 
gustus N. Allen, the well known architect of 
New York City, and last but not least the 
famous temperance lecturer, John B. Gougli, who 
left this world with that stirring message to young 
men still clinging to his lips, "Young man ! Keep 
your record clean," a message which Phi Kappa Psi 
may well adopt as her own, and repeat in tones of 
w^arning to every young man who wears her Shield ; 

Record of Recent copies of the Shield give such excellent 
Active accounts of what the active chapters have been do- 
Chapters ^"^ '^^^ their respective colleges, that it seems hardly 
worth while to repeat them here. The record made 
by our active members in athletics, scholarship, and 
college journalism, is a splendid one, and every 
chapter has contributed materially to the magnificent 
list of prizes and honors secured by members of our 
fraternity. 

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Recent History 



The present United States Congress includes fif- Dodd 
teen members of Phi Kappa Psi. 

Up to the time of his recent retirement from 
active praciice, Brother S. C. T. Dodd, the Solicitor 
General of the Standard Oil Company, was reputed 
to be the highest salaried man in the world. 

It takes great moral courage to make an unpop- Foraker 
ular fight, yet this is what Senator Joseph B. Foraker 
is doing in the U. S. Senate, in his efforts to defeat 
the radical and harmful rate laws that have been in- 
troduced to satisfy popular clamor. 

Brother Theodore P. Shonts, recently appointed Shonts 
President of the Panama Canal Commission, at a 
salary of $30,000 a year, has the reputation among 
his railroad friends of being able to build more rail- 
road for less money than any other man in America, 
and if he is not interfered with bv meddling poli- 
ticians, he will doubtless justify this reputation on 
the Isthmus. 

Probably no Phi Psi has been more prominent Hadley 
before the public of late than Brother Herbert S. 
Hadley, the attorney general for Missouri, who has 
been examining the members of the Standard Oil 
Company in New York City, to secure evidence in 
his efforts to oust them from his State. The ac- 
counts in the metropolitan newspapers make it ap- 
parent that Brother Hadley has conducted the ex- 
amination in a manner extremely creditable to him- 
self, and that he has easily held his own against 
the experienced and high priced attorneys of the 
Standard Oil Company. 

Brother Frank A. Arter, the retired capitalist of Arter 
Cleveland, has recently given $60,000 to Allegheny 
Collese, and $5,000 to the chapter house fund of 
his old chapter, Penn. Beta at that college. 

Brother Morris L. Clothier has recently given Qothier 
$50,000 to endow the Chair of Chemistry at Swarth- 
more College, where he graduated. 



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Chapter Roll and Table of 
Membership 

Date Number 

Founded. Chapter. College. of Members. 

1852 — Pa. A., Jefferson College 403 

1853 — Va. A., University of Virginia 2!7^ 

1855 — Va. B., Washington & Lee University. . 198 

1855 — Pa. B., Allegheny College 415 

1855 — Pa. r ., Bucknell University 304 

1855 — Pa. A., Washington College (consoli- 
dated with Jefferson College) "j% 

1855 — Pa. E., Pennsylvania College 260 

1856 — Va. r., Hampden-Sidney College (1900) 173 

1857 — S. C. A., South Carolina Univ'sity (1892) 114 

1857 — Miss. A., University of Mississippi 174 

1859— Va. A., Bethany College (1882) 162 

1859 — Tenn. A., La Grange College (1861).... 28 

1859 — Pa. Z., Dickinson College 335 

i860— Pa. H., Frankhn & Marshall College... 227 

i860 — Tenn. B., Cumberland University (1879) 75 

1861 — Miss. B., Mississippi College (18^1).... 15 

1861 — Ohio A., Ohio Wesleyan University. . . . 393 

1864 — 111. A., North- Western University 234 

1865 — Ind. A., De Pauw University 395 

1865 — Ky. A., Kentucky University (1866).... 13 

1865 — 111. B., University of Chicago 193 

1866 — Ohio B., Wittenberg College 261 

1867 — Iowa A., University of Iowa 191 

186&— D. C. A, Columbian University (1899) • • 18S 

1868— Iowa r., Cornell College (1871) 42 

1869 — N. Y. A., Cornell University 262 

1869 — Pa. 0., Lafayette College 240 

1869 — Ind. B., Indiana University 361 

1869— Mo. A., University of Missouri (1874) y2 

1870— Va. E., Randolph-Macon College 1882) zi 

1870 — Tenn. P., University of Nashville (1873) iS 

1870 — Ind. P., Wabash College (1901) 174 



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1871 — Ohio r., Wooster University (1892).... 137 

1871— 111. r., Monmouth College (1884) 'jy 

1872 — N. Y. r ., Columbia University 175 

1875 — Wis. A., University of Wisconsin 246 

1876 — Kan. A., University of Kansas 232 

1876 — Mich. A., University of Michigan 231 

1876 — Wis. B., Racine College (1877) 11 

1877 — Pa. I-j University of Pennsylvania 268 

1879 — Md. A., JohnsHopkins University 133 

1880 — Ohio A., University of Ohio 178 

1881 — Cal. A., University of the Pacific (1892) 75 

1881— N. Y. A., Hobart College (1892) 48 

1881— Wis. r ., Beloit College 164 

1882 — Iowa A., Simpson College (1889) 6^ 

1883 — N. Y. B., Syracuse University 224 

1883— Minn. A., Carleton College (1888) 48 

1887— N. Y. E., Colgate University 196 

1888 — Minn. B., University of Minnesota 142 

1889 — Pa. K., Swarthmore College 118 

1890 — W. Va. A., University of West Virginia 115 

1891 — Cal. B., Stanford University 109 

1893— N. Y. Z., Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute 86 

1S95 — Neb. A., University of Nebraska 129 

1895 — Mass. A., Amherst College 138 

1896— N. H. A., Dartmouth College 130 

1899 — Cal. r ., University of California 61 

1901 — Ind. A., Purdue University 79 

1901 — Tenn. A., Vanderbilt University 31 

1902 — R. I. A., Brown University 49 

1904 — Texas A., University of Texas Z7 

1904 — 111. A., University of Illinois 30 

Total membership 10,167 



The Secret of Success 



The road to the house of fiilfilhTient is long ! It 
is nearly twenty years since the beginnings of this 
little book were made by the writer while an under- 
graduate, for the use of his own chapter. How 
wonderfully Phi Psi's record has grown since then ! 
The secret of our successes is to be found in t/n^ all- 
round manhood that Phi Kappa Psi has taught us 
to cultivate and in the healthy activities zvhich she 
has encouraged. 

THE CHARACTER AND SUCCESS WHICH 
HER PRINCIPLES HAVE WROUGHT IN THE 
PHI PSIS OF THE PAST, THEY WILL CON- 
TINUE TO PRODUCE IN THE LIVES OF 
THOSE WHO AFTER US, SHALL TRUST 
THEIR FUTURE TO HER GUIDANCE. 

Brothers ! If you have read thus far, I know that 
your hearts are aglow as is mine, with pride that 
we are members of such a fraternity. 

High, High, High, Phi Kappa Psi, ^ 
Live ever, Die never. Phi Kappa Psi ! ! ! 

When first we gave this cry, it was the cheer of 
Hope, but now it has swelled into the confident 
shout of VICTORY. 



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